CHAP. IV THE BIG GAME OF ALASKA 57 



There is no doubt that the skull No. 2 is an exceptionally 

 large specimen, and I was much gratified to find, on com- 

 paring it with one which Mr. A. J. Stone procured about 

 the same time in 1903, that mine was considerably the larger. 



Brown Bear Skull No. 4. 



Mr. Stone considered his beast to be the largest he had ever 

 seen, and as he has had several years' experience in Alaska 

 and at the New York Museum, I think myself decidedly 

 lucky in obtaining such a specimen on my first trip in the 

 country. 



Whether or no there is actually a difference even between 

 those bears which I obtained from the Pacific and the Bering 



