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Life-histories of Northern Animals 



(292 mm.); hind-foot, 2o| inches (520 mm.); height at 

 shoulders, 3 feet 5 inches (1,042 mm.); body, ischium to 

 manubrium, 4 feet 2 inches (1,271 mm.); depth at chest, 16 



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Fig. 17 — The tails and discs of: i. New England Whitetail. 2. Colorado Mule-deer. 3. Oregon 

 Coast Deer. 4. Wyoming Wapiti. 5. British Red-deer. 



inches (406 mm.); elbow to ground, 26 inches (661 mm.); 

 length of head, nose to occiput, 13I inches (343 mm.); length 

 of ear, 9 inches (228 mm.). 

 WEIGHT The weight of the carcass (gutted) was 222 pounds, which 



would give a live weight of about 280 pounds. Another 

 , specimen, taken about the same time and place, was 150 pounds 

 in weight, that is, about 190 pounds live weight. The maxi- 

 mum weight of the Northern Whitetail is commonly given 

 at 350 pounds, but I find good testimony for considerably 

 higher. 



In 1877 a large buck was shot in Franklin County, Adi- 

 rondack, N. Y., by John T. Denny, of New York. It weighed 

 286 pounds dressed, which would give 357 pounds live 

 weight.^ 



JohnW.Titcomb, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 

 writes me that a buck weighing 370 pounds was killed in Ver- 

 mont in 1899. 



One that weighed when dressed 299I pounds, or 375 

 pounds live weight," was killed in Essex County, N. Y., by 

 Albert H. Thomas, of Warrensburg, N. Y., 



A still larger animal was shot by Warren S. Potter, of Glens 

 Falls, N. Y., shortly before 1896, at Thirteenth Pond, Warren 



^First Annual Report Com. F. G. & F., N. Y. S., 1896, p. 200. *Ibid. 



