40 
DEER, 
VII. DEER. 
35 . Elk. 
Horns upright, folid, branched, annually deciduous. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the 
upper. 
* With palmated horns. 
Aice, machlis, Plinii, lib. viii. c. libns palfnatis, caruncula guttu-- 
15. Gefner quad. I. 3. Munfier rali, Lin. fiyfi. 92. JE\g. Faun. 
Cofimog. 883. Suec. No. 39. Los, RzaczinJH 
Cervus palmatus, Alee, Elant. Polon. 212. 
Klein quad. 24. Ridinger wild. C. cornibiis ab imo ad fuminum, 
< Tbiere. 36. palmatis, BriJJon quad. 6. Faunul. 
Elk, Rail Jyn. quad. 85 . Scheffer Sinens. 
Lapl. 133. Bell's trav.l. 5, 215, h'FAz.n,de Biffon, xii. 79. tab. vii. 
322. viii. Br. Nlufi. AJb. Muf. 
Cervus Alces. C. cornibiis acaul- 
D. with horns with fhort beams fpreading into 
large and broad palms, one fide of which is plain, 
the outmod furnifhe.d with feveral iharp fnags. No 
brow antlers *, The larged I have feen is in the 
houfe belonging to the Hudfon Bay company, weigh’d 
56Tb. length 32 inches; between tip and tip, 34; 
breadth of the palm 13 There is in the fame 
place an excellent picture of an Elk, which was 
killed in the prpfence of Charles XL of Sueden , and 
which weighed 12291b. It is a very deformed and 
fcemihgiy difproportioned bead. A young female of 
* In the Britijh Mufeum is a pair of Elk horns, which in all re- j 
fpeds refembles the others, except that on the beam of each horn : j 
about four inches from the bafe is a branch, round and trifurcated : j 
very different from a brow-antler. It is the only one of the kind I ! 
ever faw; fo, probably, is a meer accident; for neither the many 
European Elks horns, or the two pair of American Elk or Moofe, I 
have examined, are furnifhed with brow-antlers. Thofe in quef- 
tion feem to be the very pair which Mr. Dale deferibes and figures* 
Phil. firatff. abridg. ix. 85. tab. 6. fig. 50, 
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