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Show 1 9 0 3 .] XHE ELK IN NORWAY. 1 4 7 how rapidly Elk increase where tliey are protected and the cows not killed :- Year. Old Bulls. Young Bulls. Cows. Calves. 1887. 3 - 9 10 Two of these cows had two calves each. 1888. 7 2 8 7 One of these cows had two calves. 1889. 6 6 17 14 Six of these cows had two calves each. 1890. 5 10 18 20 Nine of these cows had two calves each. Most of these observations were written at the request of oui* late President, Sir W. Flower, six years ago, but were withheld from publication until this year, when the question of a new species of Elk existing in Siberia was raised by Mr. Lydekker and theHon. W. Rothschild. I then added the following appendix. Text-fig. 24. Horns of a very old Elk showing degeneration. (About TV nat. size.) A p p en d ix .- On the V ariation of the E l k . Dr. Lonnberg's paper on the variation of the Elk appears to me to confirm the opinion I expressed at a recent meeting of the Society (P. Z. S. 1902, vol. ii. p. 144), that the Siberian Elk described by Mr. Lydekker (P. Z. S. 1902, vol. i. p. 207) as Alces bedfordice was nothing more than an inconstant variety of the European Elk. The Hon. Walter Rothschild has since expressed a contrary opinion, for which, however, I am not aware that he has any further evidence than the fact that other horns similar J 10* |