28 The National Collection 



possible f or the people of the United States to protect the game of Alaska 

 against -he resident.- of the territory who are determined to annihilate it? 



In New Brunswick the Moose will survive. Thanks to efficient protection 

 by the residents themselves the Moose are rapidly increasing; but the con- 

 tinuous killing of the adult bulls is almost certain to reduce the size of the 

 individuals of succeeding generations. 



The Moose of Scandinavia is a much smaller animal than its American 

 congener, and its antlers also are proportionately less. The widest pair re- 

 corded in Mr. Ward's "Records" have a spread of 52 inches only, and the 

 breadth of the "palmation" is only 9 inches. The pair in the "nucleus collec- 

 tion" spread 45 inches; they are 31 Va inches in length, 29V inches between 

 tips, and the width of palmation is 9 inches. If entered in the list of eighteen 

 for the world, they would be number seven. The greatest known width of 

 palmation is I5V-1 inches, and there are five other specimens which exceed 10 

 inches. Of the record antlers of Alaskan Moose, the greatest palmation is 24 

 inches, while others are 23, 21, and 18 inches. 



In size the Alaskan Moose is to that of Europe as the Woodland Caribou 

 of Alaska is to the Lapland Reindeer. The Caribou of the Kenai Peninsula, 

 and southward thereof to the Cassiar Mountains, are the giants of their genus; 

 and of those it is safe to say that very few, if any, larger antlers ever have come 

 out of Alaska than the huge pair in the writer's collection (Plate VII, Fig. 

 2). They came from the Kenai Peninsula, and in Mr. Rowland Ward's list* 

 of seventy of the largest Rangifer antlers known to him throughout the world 

 this pair stands number two. They are distinguished by their massiveness and 

 weight, quite as much as by their great length. The measurements in detail 

 are as follows: 



Length of right antler, on outside curve SS^A inches 



Widest outside spread 39V2 inches 



Circumference above brow tine 8% inches 



Points, 24+16. Weight, fully dry, 33 pounds. 



Of the Greenland Caribou, Rangifer groenlandicus (Plate VII, Fig. 3) , 

 the collection contains a specimen which for length is very good. It ranks as 

 number sixteen in Mr. Ward's list of seventy of the largest of all species. Its 

 extremejength is 52 inches, but like most very long antlers of Caribou, the 



"Records of Big Game," fifth edition, 1906, page 5. 



