. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. CERVID/E 237 A provisional race, characterised by the muffle being T-shaped (fig. ?>8), in place of triangular (fig. 37). No specimen in Fig. 3S.— op Ontario Elk (Alces alces colwnbiv), sshowing T-shaped muffle. From the type specimen, in the coUeotiou of Capt. E. C. IlamiUon. E.—Alces alces grig-as. Alces gigas, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washinqton, vol. xiii, p. 57, 1899, List N. Amcr. Mamm. p. 391, 1912. Alces machlis gigas, LydeJchcr, Great and Sma
. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. CERVID/E 237 A provisional race, characterised by the muffle being T-shaped (fig. ?>8), in place of triangular (fig. 37). No specimen in Fig. 3S.— op Ontario Elk (Alces alces colwnbiv), sshowing T-shaped muffle. From the type specimen, in the coUeotiou of Capt. E. C. IlamiUon. E.—Alces alces grig-as. Alces gigas, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washinqton, vol. xiii, p. 57, 1899, List N. Amcr. Mamm. p. 391, 1912. Alces machlis gigas, LydeJchcr, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc, p. 49, 1901 ; Ward, Eecords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 97, 1910, ed. 7, p. 97, 1914. Paralces gigas, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mits. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 160, 1902. Typical locality Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Type in National Museum, "Washington. Larger and more richly coloured than A. a. amerieanus, M'ith the occipital region of the skull narrower, the palate wider, and tlie lower ja^^' stouter. General colour grizzled l)lack and wood-brown, darker on spine, clear black on chest, flanks, and buttocks, and hair-brown on middle line of under surface; head more finely grizzled than back; ears broccoli-])rown externally, yellowish white internally; limbs hair-brown or liroccoli-brown, with darker Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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