. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . o believe, from actual comparison of skeletons, that the American and Europeanspecies are distinct. Among other factS; he mentions that the breadth of the face at the mostprotuberant part of the maxillaries is less in the American than in the European animal. As far as I can ascertain, a distinct and specific name was first applied to the moose by SirWm. Jardine, in 1835, in the name of americanus. I have not the work quoted above at han
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . o believe, from actual comparison of skeletons, that the American and Europeanspecies are distinct. Among other factS; he mentions that the breadth of the face at the mostprotuberant part of the maxillaries is less in the American than in the European animal. As far as I can ascertain, a distinct and specific name was first applied to the moose by SirWm. Jardine, in 1835, in the name of americanus. I have not the work quoted above at hand,but boriow the reference from Reichenbach. I make this quotation from Reichenbach, not having the volume of Nat. Lib. at hand. 632 U. S. p. R. R EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. For the sake of illustrating the characters of the horns of the moose, I have given figures ofantlers of an adult from Maine, and of a young male, probably in the second year, from NewYork. An extensive series of antlers from Sweden, in the Smithsonian collection, thoughsomewhat difierent from the American, before me, yet furnish nothing of apparent Fig. 1. Alee americanus, No. 857. Maine. Adult. Left horn seen from the front. Size, inches to the inch of the 2. Alee americanus, No. 782. Hamillon county, N. Y. Young male of second year. Eight horn from the front. Size, inches to the inch. The moose is the largest of the American deer, quite equalling a horse in bulk. Itsrange at the present day extends, on the west coast of America, from the shores of the Arcticocean nearly to the Columbia river. Further east, the northein limit is about latitude 65, andthence through Canada to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the nortliern jiarts of NewYork. A few are still killed every year in Essex, Hamilton, and the adjacent counties of thelast mentioned State, although, owing to the comparatively inaccessible nature of their resorts,their pursuit has become extre
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