Show e F THREE SPECIES OF MOOSE Distinguishing Features of tho Animals Ani-mals Found In Different Parts of the World Thero aro supposed to ho threes spo clan of moose Tho European moose or elk found In northern Europe and adjoining parts of Asia the common mooso of Eastern America distinguished distin-guished chiefly from Us European l congener con-gener by tho skull being narrowed across the maxlllurles also by Its greater size and lurked color and thou Alaskan moose separated by Its giant stature its narrow occiput broad pain ate and heavy mandibles writes Ernest Ern-est Thompson Soton In Scrlbnora Monthly I Expressed In external features as Illustrated Il-lustrated In the adult male always best for dlercntlatlng species Tho Scandinavian elk Is n small gray animal with little palm and many spikes on Its untlorn The Canadian Is a largo black animal with much almatlon and always n separate brow hunch of spikes I have seen hundreds of Canadian noose antlers but never a pair that did not show n 1 well developed devel-oped separate group of prongs In trout of each brow I have seen a score or moro of Swedish elk but never saw ono that did have a separated brow I group of prongs though I confess I have seen figures of each Tho Alaskan Is a richly colored black gray and brown giant not only the largest deer alive today but bo loved to bo tho largest that ever did exist olnco no fossil has been found to equal It in bulk Its antlers differ chlolly In size from those of tho Canadian Cana-dian moose but Madison Grant claims that they aro also moro complex and have In the brow nntlors n second pal matlon which Is sot at right angles to that of tho main palnmtlon In these peculiarities ho finds a startling re somblanco Is shown to tho extinct Cer valces a moosollko deer of Pleistocene times probably ancestral to tho genus Alces w If this resemblance Indicates any close relationship wo have In thou Alaskan mooso n survivor of tho archaic ar-chaic typo from which the true mooso and Scandinavian elk have somewhat degenerated |