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only apparent drawback to its perfect beauty being the disproportionate 

 shortness of the tail. A large stag wapiti stands seventeen hands high, 

 equal to the height of a large horse. The colour is yellowish brown' 

 verging towards a dark glossy brown about the head and shoulders, 

 belly brown, and a yellowish-white patch on each hind quarter. The 

 horns, however, constitute the greatest point of beauty in the Wapiti. 

 Antlers have been frequently met with measuring upwards of six feet 

 from the burr, around the beam, to the highest point, ornamented with 

 four formidable brow antlers, two over each eye, each eighteen, and 

 sometimes twenty-four inches long, curved upward and elegantly 

 tapering and smooth at the points. The other pi'ongs or tines I'ange 

 from one foot to eighteen inches in length and. are nicely graduated to 

 fine points, as if they had been artificially tapered and polished. The 

 horns shoot upward with a graceful and commanding sweep, and are 

 remarkable for the almost uniform regularity of their growth. The 

 largest stag of the Scottish Highlands would ai>pear but a mere fawn 

 standing beside a peerlessly crowned full grown stag of Canada. The 

 monarch of the Highland glens seldom reaches more than four hundred 

 and twenty-five pounds in weight, while his giant American congener 

 turns the scale at more than double that weight. The wapiti — long 

 misnamed an elk — was formerly quite numerous in the Ottawa Valley. 

 In contradistinction, to the caribou and the moose, he was found more 

 generally — though not exclusively — on the southern shore of the river. 

 One hundred years ago, these animals were still present in considerable 

 numbers in the Count}^ of Carleton, the hai'd-wood forests of which 

 were their fovourite haunts. The horns of the Wapiti are still quite 

 frequently turned up by the plough in the vicinity of the City of Ottawa. 

 I have, when a boy, often found them in the woods around the Village 

 of Richmond, lying upon the surface of the ground, in such a fair state 

 of presei'vation as to clearly indicate that not very long before those 

 majestic animals must have been natives of our immediate neighbour- 

 hood. This specimen of a wapiti horn, which I now show yon, was 

 found near Eastman's Springs, in the Township of Gloucester ; and, 

 about eight years ago, a much larger and more perfect fragment was 

 found on the farm of Mr. Robert J. Hinton, within two miles of the 

 city limits. Both of these specimens, and others which I have seen, by 



