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spread and narrow "shovel." 1 have seen several antlers with great spread 

 that were not so fine or desirable as others of less spread but better palmation. 

 The measurements of Mr. Reed's six Moose heads are to-day as shown 

 below ; but it must be remembered that the measurements of fresh heads are not 

 to be compared with those taken from heads that are thoroughly dry. 



MOOSE HEADS 



The Caribou Heads. The six mounted heads of Caribou collected by Mr. 

 Reed represent two species, and also two groups. Fortunately the finest head 

 in the series is also the rarest. It was killed in the Cassiar Mountains, of 

 northern British Columbia, in 1896, and represents the Osborn Caribou, 

 Rangifcr osborni (Figure 17). In size, in massiveness, length of tines and 

 general ensemble, this is certainly one of the finest Caribou heads in existence. 

 A cut of it appears in an elaborate illustrated paper on "The Caribou," by 

 Madison Grant, published in the Annual Report of the New York Zoological 

 Society for 1902. This species, named in honor of Prof. Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn, is one of the largest, and weighs from 550 to 700 pounds. Mr. Grant 

 states that "K. osborni are found living throughout the year in the high moun- 

 tains above timber-line, and are the largest and handsomest Caribou known." 

 It is indeed good fortune to have secured the famous head that is figured here- 

 with. 



The other Caribou heads, five in number, were taken on the western side 

 of the Alaskan Peninsula, in September and October, 1901. They are Rangifer 

 granti, and represent a species described in 1902, and named in honor of 

 Madison Grant, through whose efforts the type specimens were collected. 



This species belongs to the Barren Ground group of Caribou, and is a 

 much smaller animal than the robust Kenai, Osborn and Mountain species, 

 which are woodlanders. The antlers are longer in the beam, have fewer points, 



