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touched. The Indian hunter does not, nowadays, travel very 

 far from his reserve, and I have reason to believe that the 

 Moose are not only holding their own, but increasing." 



The area in question is about 500 square miles. Accord- 

 ing to these figures there is a Moose population of a round 

 1,000, or 2 to the square mile. This is what most hunters 

 consider fairly good Moose country, although a rate 10 times 

 as high is found in some localities. 



The entire range of the Moose is about 3,500,000 square 

 miles, but it is not all equally good; at a very rough estimate, 

 we may put the number on the whole range at a round million 

 of Moose. 



The record-bearer for spread among antlers of the Cana- ant. 

 dian Moose is the 68^-inch pair taken by Dr. W. L. Munro, of 

 Providence, R. I., on the Nepisiguit, N. B., October 12, 1907.* 



The previous record pair were those taken by F. H. Cook, of 

 Leominster, Mass., in 

 New Brunswick, Oc- 

 tober, 1898. These, 

 as measured by S. L. 

 Crosby, of Bangor, at 

 the time of capture, 

 were 67 inches from 



tip to tip. During the TIH'T 



intervening eightyears ** 



they have shrunk a 



little, by inevitable pj^ ^.j—The eSJ^-inch New Brunswick Moose, taken by Dr. W. L. 



dj , 1 Munro, of Providence, R. I., October 12, 1907. 



rying, and to-day are 



only 65I inches across. They now hang in the Leominster 



Club, at Leominster, Mass., where I examined them (Fig. 64). 



Next comes a 66-inch pair," also from New Brunswick, 



now in the collection of Stephen Decatur, of Portsmouth, 



N. H., and after them a 65-inch pair from Manitoba, belonging 



to Otho Shaw.'^ 



^"I have since learned of the 70-inch head secured by Lewis M. Gibb, of New 

 York, in Caughnawana Club Preserve, Pontiac Co., Que., October 10, 1906. E. T. S. 

 " R. Ward's Records of Big Game, 1899, p. 11. '' Ibid., p. 10. 



