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animal at a distance is that of a black beast, with brown head 

 and white stockings. This is typical of all Eastern Moose; 

 the coat fades toward springtime. 



The sexes are much alike. 



The calf is dull reddish brown without spots; it turns 

 darker at three months. 



The above bull measured as follows: size 



Length, 9 feet 6^ inches (2,896 mm.); snout to occiput, 

 2 feet 5 inches (737 mm.); tail, 2^ inches (63 mm.); hind-foot, 

 2 feet 7I inches (794 mm.); height at shoulders, 6 feet (1,830 

 mm.); length of ear, 10 inches (254 mm.); spread of antlers, 

 57I inches (1,457 ^^•)' 



The brow-tines were palmated continuously with the main 

 web. These horns are figured on page 160. The individual 

 was past his prime. He had several battle scars on his shoulders, 

 and his right ear was badly torn by some recent encounter. 



An ordinary bull Moose stands 6 feet high at the withers, height 



C. H. Stonebridge, of New York, tells me that while 

 hunting at Chesuncook Lake, Maine, in October, 1897, he 

 killed a bull Moose that was 6 feet 8 inches at the withers after 

 skinning. 



W. J. Hayes, of New York, records^ that a young Moose 

 shot in Nova Scotia stood 6 feet 9 inches at the shoulders, 

 although on examination of the teeth, horns, etc., it proved to 

 be only three years old. 



William L. Roberts, of Springfield, Mass., is stated^ to 

 have killed a Nova Scotia Moose that measured 6 feet 10 inches 

 at the withers. 



One still larger, taken in New Brunswick by Carl Rungius, 

 the animal painter, measured 7 feet at the withers as it lay on 

 the ground.^ 



But the record-bearer in point of stature was killed at 

 Mattawa, Que., in October, 1895, by Dr. Hamilton Vreeland 

 and his brother. It stood 7 feet 4 inches at the withers.'' 



' Am. Nat., June, 1871, p. 251. 



' Forest and Stream, November 25, 1899, p. 426. 



^ Homaday, Am. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 140. 



* Recreation Magazine, February, 1896, p. 65. 



