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though for purposes of crossing them with red deer, to improve 

 the latter's heads, I should call it an unsatisfactory proceeding, 

 for the crossed heads soon lose the more beautiful red deer type. 

 Probably the last addition to the semi-feral fauna of this country 

 was made by Sir Peter Walker, Bart., who introduced in 1893 

 into his park at Osmaston Manor, near Derby, some fourteen 

 females and six male wapiti which had been captured by Mr. 

 Root, of Laramie, Wyoming. In 1896 the biggest stag set up a 

 head of nineteen points, and eleven young wapiti were born that year. 

 In conclusion, I should like to say a word upon the relatively 

 inferior quality of trophies shown at the few trophy exhibitions 

 that have been held in the United States. To the sportsman the 

 lack of such a show at the otherwise so wonderfully complete 

 Chicago " World's Fair," was a sad disappointment, and deprived 

 the world of what could have been made one of the most interesting 

 sights. For though the Smithsonian Department exhibited some 

 good specimens of stuffed animals, there was no attempt at a show 

 of trophies. Lately some sportsmen's exhibitions have been held 

 at New York, but the quality of the heads, as can be seen from the 

 accompanying list of the best heads, taken from an American paper 

 (Fishing and Shooting), was by no means as good as one expected 

 to find in the home of the wapiti, the bighorn, and the moose. 

 There are hundreds of superior heads hanging in English country 

 houses. 



Girth. Length. 



Mountain sheep i6| 42^ 



Virginia deer 4 22^ 



Wapiti 6f 56^ ... 



Mule deer 5 26| 



Caribou . 5^ 50 



Musk ox 29! 20^ 



Buffalo bull 14 ; 18^ 32 



Moose %\ 41 4 i 



