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week after its capture it was weighed and was found to turn the 

 scales at 48olb ! It was also photographed by two men (William 

 Hyde and Th. H. Rutter), the first photographers who set up shop 

 in Montana, and from them I received what is believed to be 

 the only copy extant, for the negative came to grief in a 

 fire soon after the picture was taken. Only a few copies had 

 been secured, and all but the one I was fortunate enough to secure 

 shared, I was told, the fate of the plate. The illustration on p. 114 

 is a reproduction, and has, therefore, peculiar interest. It re- 

 presents this monster ram in his winter coat, securely tied up to 

 a heavy iron mining-pump and is, so far as I know, the only 

 photograph of a live Haplocerus that exists. The only large male 

 specimen in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington was, I believe, 

 mounted by a taxidermist who strictly copied the pose of the 

 Deerlodge monster. 



Sir Edmund Loder did for the antelope-goat what he achieved 

 for the wapiti, i.e., he ascertained the weight of a ram as it 

 stood when the bullet ended its career. It was a big specimen, 

 and it scaled 2461b. as it fell, and i83lb. clean, so that an 

 extreme live weight of 3Oolb., or even 35olb., is quite within 

 the bounds of possibility. There seems little doubt that the 

 antelope-goat inhabiting the mountains immediately adjacent to 

 the Pacific do not attain the same great size reached by those 

 of the interior. I arrive at this conclusion, not so much from 

 actual experience, for I have never hunted the animal in the 

 former regions, but from remarks made by those who have, 

 and who appear to consider I5olb. as the weight "of about* as 

 large a goat as ever I saw,"* and by the size of many hundreds of 

 coast skins I have seen at different times, which is even more 

 conclusive evidence. 



Concerning the distribution of the Haplocerus, the general 

 statement that they only inhabit the Pacific slope mountains 

 north of Mount Shasta, close to the boundary of Oregon and 



* Forest and Stream, August 27, 1885. 

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