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the skulls, and mounting the head skins over cast skulls, thus disproving the 

 arrogant proverb which says that "You can not have your cake and eat it, too!" 

 In addition to thirteen specimens collected in Africa in 1906, Mr. Norton's 

 gift includes three mounted heads from Wyoming, one of which is of a female 

 Prong-Horned Antelope which hears horns. Few sportsmen, we venture to 

 say, ever have seen such a specimen. The complete list of Mr. Norton's gift is 

 as follows: 



AMERICAN WAPITI, (Cervus canadensis). 9 Mounted head. 

 PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE, (Antilocapra americana). 9 Mounted head. 

 MULE DEER, (Odocoileus liemionus). 9 Mounted head. 

 CRAWSHAV WATERBUCK, (Cobus crawshayi). Skull, horns and skin. 

 COMMON WATERBUCK, (Cobus ellipsiprymnus). Skull, horns and skin. 

 COMMON WATERBUCK, (Cobus ellipsiprymnus). Skull, horns and skin. 

 GRANT GAZELLE, (Gazella granti). Skull, horns and skin. 

 GRANT GAZELLE, (Gazella granti). Skull, horns and skin. 

 ELAND, (Taurotragus oryx). Skull, horns and skin. 

 GREATER KUDU, (Strepsiceros kudu). Skull, horns and skin. 

 -BAKER ROAN ANTELOPE, (Hippotragus bakeri). Skull, horns and skin. 

 IMPALA, (Aepyceros melampus). Skull, horns and skin. 



WARD REDUNCA ANTELOPE, (Cervicapra redunca wardi). Skull, horns and head skin. 

 WARD REDUNCA ANTELOPE, (Cervicapra redunca mardi). Horns on skull. 

 IMPALA, (Aepyceros melampus). Horns on skull. 

 COKE HARTEBEEST, (Bubalis cokei). Horns on skull. 



THE RAREST BISON HEAD 



MR. Caspar Whitney's gift (Figure 18) of a finely-mounted head of a 

 Wood Bison constitutes a notable addition. Few indeed are the pre- 

 served specimens, mounted or unmounted, which represent the very 

 last important wild remnant of the American Bison species. With the excep- 

 tion of the pitifully small band of about twenty -five head in the Yellowstone 

 Park, reduced from 300 by the murderous attacks of poachers who ought to 

 be hanged as fast as they can be located, no other wild Bison remain alive save 

 the Canadian herd of the far north. In the central portion of the province of 

 Athabasca, in what is known as the "Peace River Country," there are a number 

 of small herds of Bison. When Ernest T. Seton penetrated that region 

 in 1907, he saw three bands, and counted thirty -five head, three of which were 

 calves. Mr. Seton's estimate of the total number of Bison in that region is 

 300; and that is also the estimate of the Canadian Mounted Police of that 

 district. 



