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of obtaining decent wapiti heads in America. That nothing like 

 record heads can be bagged is a sad truth, for the number of 

 animals has within the last two decades shrunk by at least 

 nineteen-twentieths. At the same time, good heads can 



WAPITI SHOT BY MR. T. BATE, OF KELSTERTON. 



occasionally still be got, and, as the best evidence of this, I am 

 tempted to reproduce the photograph (see illustration) of a fine 

 trophy of the dimensions given in the table, obtained by 

 Mr. Moncreiffe as late as 1896 in what is now considered a 

 "shot out" region, namely, the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. 



