374 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



Oudng probably to the great age of this 

 moose there were no points growing out from 

 the tops of his antlers, and this takes away 

 considerablj'" from their beauty. A more 

 remarkable characteristic of this head was 

 that the small subsidiary palms or spikes, 

 representing the brow tines of a red deer's 

 head, were entirely wanting, though in all 

 other moose heads I have ever seen I have 

 never known them to be absent. 



Although in the country through which the 

 tributaries of the Yukon (the Hutalinqua, the 

 Pelly, the Macmillan, the Stewart and the 

 Klondyke) flow, moose may not grow, on an 

 average, quite so large in size of body and 

 antlers as their relatives in the Kenai 

 Peninsula, they certainly approach that race — 

 which has now been given sub-specific rank — 

 in their proportions, and surpass in size and 

 weight of body, and antlers, the moose of 

 Central and Eastern Canada. 



In 1904 I carefuUy measured the standing 

 height of three bull moose- — all of them old 

 animals — shot on the north fork of the 



