. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 50 Elk long and pointed, lateral hoots large. A small metatarsal gland and tarsal tuft, the former situated high up. Pelage, uniformly coloured at all ages and all seasons,1 long and coarse ; males provided with a peculiar pear-shaped pendulous expansion of skin covered with long hairs on the throat. In the skull, the nasal bones very short, and the nasal aperture consequentlv of great extent; gland-pit and vacuity between the bones of the face moderate. Upper molar teet
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 50 Elk long and pointed, lateral hoots large. A small metatarsal gland and tarsal tuft, the former situated high up. Pelage, uniformly coloured at all ages and all seasons,1 long and coarse ; males provided with a peculiar pear-shaped pendulous expansion of skin covered with long hairs on the throat. In the skull, the nasal bones very short, and the nasal aperture consequentlv of great extent; gland-pit and vacuity between the bones of the face moderate. Upper molar teeth broad, low-crowned, and approxi- mating to those of the giraffe. Size very large, and build clumsy. With the exception of a certain similarity in the conformation of their. Fig. io.—Front view of Frontlet and Antlers of Elk. From an immature specimen in the British Museum. antlers to those of the American deer (with which they also agree in the structure of the lateral metacarpal bones), elk seem fully as isolated a type as reindeer. Although there is evidence of the existence of the genus since the Pliocene epoch, there is nothing definitely known as to its relationship with other members of the family. Essentially, as seen in immature specimens (Fig. io), the antlers are of the forked, or dichotomous, type ; the anterior prong of the fork simply dividing again, while the posterior prong splits into a fork of which the front prong is simple but the hinder branch expands to form the main palmation. In very old animals 1 Young American elk arc stated to show a faint 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 Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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