DEER 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Horns solid, branched; fall off and are renewed annually. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw; none in the upper. 
ELK. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cervus Alces. C. cornibus acaulibus palmatis, caruncula gut- 
turali. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 1/5. 
Horns with short beams,, spreading into large 
and broad palms : a tufted excrescence at the 
throat. 
Cervus cornibus ab imo ad summum palmatis. 
Bris. Regn. Anim. p. 93 . n. 9. 
Orignal. Charley. Nouv. Franc. 3. p. 126. 
Elk. . . . Sm. Buff. v. 6. p. 315. pi. 188. Penn. Hist . 
Quadr. v. 1. p. 105. pi. 17. Bew. Quadr. 
p, 108. Shaw Gen. Zool. 2. pi. 174 — 175. 
Moose. Penn. Arct. Zool. v. 1. p. 17. pi. 8. 
The American Indians have many strange opi- 
nions relating to the elk. They universally believe 
him subject to the epilepsy, and that he cures it by 
scratching his ear with his hind hoof till he draws 
blood. In consequence of this particular and pow- 
