158 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



The Bierstadt head killed in New Brunswick, in 1880, is 

 a marvel of palmation and size. Its spread is 64I inches." 



Minnesota follows closely with a 64-inch head killed by 

 H. C. Percival (of Mine Centre, Ont.), in St. Louis County, 

 Minn.'*' These are singularly symmetrical, even to the pendant 

 on the under side of each (Fig. 65). 



A pair taken 90 miles north-east of Winnipeg by H. C. 

 Pierce, of St. Louis, Mo.,^^ though only 56-inch spread, repre- 

 sent, to my mind, the most beautiful type of Moose antler. 

 They have broad curving shovels behind, and a bold sweep of 

 many-serried and even points in the brow clusters; it is a 

 question whether, with due allowance for points of merit, 

 they do not rank first among those of Canadian Moose. These 

 four I have not personally examined (Fig. 66). 



The record antlers of Alaska Moose, now in the Field 

 Columbian Museum, measure 77I inches across the widest 

 part, and with the dry skull weighed 91 pounds. Prof. D. G. 

 Elliott informed me that, when first shot, the hunter measured 

 them at 84 inches across (Fig. 71). 



C. Phillipps-Wolley writes me that there is in the Union 

 Club, Victoria, B. C, a 76-inch head killed near Cook's Inlet, 

 by A. S. Reed. 



In view of the fact that weight, ruggedness, symmetry, and 

 number of points are to be considered, the following are 

 formidable competitors for the first place: a 74^-inch head in 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences;" the 73|-inch head belong- 

 ing to the Duke of Westminster ;^3 ^j^e 72-inch head in the 

 Union Club, Victoria, B. C. {Phillipps-Wolley)', the 7o|-inch 

 head in the collection of W. W. Hart, of New York;-" and the 

 69-inch head killed by Dall de Weese, September, 1897.^^ 



Such remarkable growths are, of course, liable to great varia- 



" Moose, by Madison Grant, 7th An. Rep. N. Y. S., F. F. G. Com., 1903, p. 232. 



^° Recreation Magazine, May, 1899, p. 357. 



^' Forest and Stream, November 30, 1895, p. 465. 



^^ Forest and Stream, December 24, 1898, p. 508. 



*^ Lydecker, Deer of All Lands, 1898, p. 53. 



" Forest and Stream, January 23, 1897, p. 65, also January 30, p. 85. 



" Recreation Magazine, February, 1898, p. 151. 



