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Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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upum interdum unico idu pofTit occidere. Caro ejus nutrimenti fimul etfaporis plena, frigidiorem orbem incolentibus inter cibos eft primarios etdcledtabiles. AlTerunt American! cervum Moofe, qui inter varietates eft hujusfpeciei, ferinam prsebere longe prfeftantiflimam: nalufque ejus praecipue interlautiffimas eorum delicias memoratur. Lingua quoque in pretio eft. Cumigitur caro adeo prsecellat, per campos nivoiaque orbis ardlici deferta exquiriturAlces, plagifque et omnigena fraude in perniciem illius confpiratur. Fitetiam non raro ut a lupis et urfis occidatur. Animal eft Alces mite etinnocuum, vaftas zonee frigida: fylvas incolcns, ubi arborum ramulos et vir-gulta depafcitur. Notandum eft vafta ilia cornua, in Hibernia aliifque Europas partibus eterra effoffa, quasque cornua efle Alces opinati funt plures phyfici, fi atten-tius infpiciantur, ab illis et figura et menfura plurimum diftare, five fit AicesEuropaeus, five Americanus, Hanc igitur fententiam hodierni jure refpuerunt. THE
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n « ^ 6^ ( 33 ) THE ELK. GENERIC CHARACTER. Horns upriglir, folid, branched, annually deciduous, Eiglu cutting teeth in the lower jaw; none in the upper. Pennant. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Deer with nearly ftemlefs palmated horns, and commonly a guttural caruncle.Elk. Pennant, ^ladr. p. gj. EElan Bitf. 12. 79. tal/. 7, 8. THE Elk is the largefl fpecies of the Deer kind, and is in fizc butlittle inferior to a horfc. It is common to both continents, but inAmerica and fome of the coldeft parts of Afia it attains to a ftill largerfize than in Europe, Its principal mark of diftinftion from the other fpe-cies of its genus is the fliape or manner of growth of the horns, whichfrom a very fhort ftem or lower part immediately expand into a greatwidth, and run into feveral fharp-pointed proceflcs externally. The numberof thefe procefles differs according to the age of the animal, and is modconfiderable in thofe of advanced life. It is an animal peculiarly adaptedby nature to cold climates. In

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