MISCELLANEOUS GIFTS 



From MADISON GRANT, New York City : 



PACIFIC WALRUS. Tusks. (Plate XVI, Fig. 8.) 



WHITE MOUNTAIN SHEEP, (Or/.v tlalli). Two mounted heads of ft-male and young. 



The Walrus tusks (Plate XVI, Fig. 8) presented by Mr. Grant are of 

 extraordinary length and size, and beyond doubt they are among the largest 

 on record. Even as they now are, after about 3J inches have been sawn off 

 from the base of each tusk, they measure 31 J inches in length, and 8 inches in 

 greatest circumference. In West Africa they would pass readily as elephant 

 tusks. They were collected in Bering Sea regions by the late Captain Z. L. 

 Tanner, for many years on duty in northern Pacific waters on the U. S. S. 

 Albatross. 



The two heads of White Mountain Sheep presented by Mr. Grant are of 

 special interest because they were obtained at the "farthest north" of their spe- 

 cies, in the extreme northern end of the Rocky Mountain chain, about forty 

 miles west of the Mackenzie River and only fifty miles from the Arctic Ocean! 

 So far as we are aware, the locality represented by these two specimens is the 

 most northerly outpost of the Genus Oris. 



From THOMAS D. LEONARD, New York: 



AMERICAN WAPITI. Mounted head. (Plate XVII, Fig. 1.) 



Naturally, a National Collection of Heads and Horns formed in America 

 will be expected to contain several heads of an important species like the Amer- 

 ican Wapiti. Manifestly it is impossible for one or two specimens adequately 

 to illustrate the antlers of the largest round-horned deer of the world. There 

 are antlers of several distinct types, the massive, the slender, the wide spread- 

 ers, the antlers that are "cupped" at their extremities, and others. 



Mr. Leonard has presented to the collection its first Wapiti head. It was 

 selected by him in the Jackson Hole Country of Wyoming, because of its very 

 massive construction. In all their upper tines, these antlers are unusually 

 heavy, but unfortunately no photograph adequately brings out this feature. 

 As every sportsman is aware, the antlers of greatest length are almost invari- 

 ably rather slender; but I think that in the eyes of most hunters, massiveness 



