Archive image from page 82 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Distribution 55 Alee properly belongs to the giant extinct fallow deer, and I have great hesitation in admitting that Alces is sufficiently distinct from Alee to be allowed to stand as a separate generic name. I have already suggested that Cervalces should be adopted for the genus, and alces for the species, but as it is probable many zoologists would refuse to admit that the type of the former is generically identical with the livin
Archive image from page 82 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Distribution 55 Alee properly belongs to the giant extinct fallow deer, and I have great hesitation in admitting that Alces is sufficiently distinct from Alee to be allowed to stand as a separate generic name. I have already suggested that Cervalces should be adopted for the genus, and alces for the species, but as it is probable many zoologists would refuse to admit that the type of the former is generically identical with the living elk, this sweeping change has not been made. Distribution.—The forest and marshy districts of Norway and Sweden, Eastern Prussia, Livonia, Northern Russia, and thence eastwards through Siberia north of about latitude 500 to Amurland. In America the elk is found in Alaska, Montana, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Baird gives Fig. 12.—Antlers of Elk viewed obliquely. (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) the distribution in his time as ' west coasts of America from the shores of the Arctic Ocean nearly to the Columbia River. Farther east the northern limit is about 650, and thence through Canada to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the northern parts of New York.' From the Adirondack region of New York it was exterminated about 1861. It has been commonly stated that the elk occurs in the Caucasus, but this, according to Dr. K. Satunin,1 is an error, although it may not improbably range to the forests on the northern flank. In Europe the range of the elk has been steadily contracting for centuries, while everywhere its numbers are rapidly diminishing. In Saxony the last example was slain in 1746, and in Silesia in 1776. In Julius Cassar's time it was abundant in the Black Forest, and even in the third century seems to have been spread over all 1 Zool. Jahrbuck Syst. vol. ix. p. 309 (1896).
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