112 HOOFED ANIMALS 



Height at shoulders 37 inches. 



Height at hips 31 inches. 



Length of head and body 42 inches. 



Depth of chest 11 inches. 



Length of fore leg to elbow 26 inches. 



Weight 79 pounds. 



At one year of age, if not stunted in growth, a Moose 

 stands 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet in height at the shoulders, 

 where it has developed a lofty hump. On August 14, 1901, 

 the largest of six Moose in the New York Zoological Park, 

 each one about fifteen months old, measured as follows : 

 Height, 5 feet 3 inches; length, head and body, 5 feet 9 inches; 

 length of tail, 33^ inches; depth of chest, 2 feet 2 inches; horns, 

 4 inches long; weight, 330 pounds. 



Any Moose which stands 6 feet 6 inches in height at the 

 shoulders may be considered a very large one, a prize, in fact. 

 The largest Moose of which I have a reliable record was killed 

 in New Brunswick, in 1901, by Carl Rungius, the justly cele- 

 brated animal painter, and carefully measured by him with 

 the following result: Height of shoulders, 7 feet, exactly; 

 length of head and body, 9 feet 7 inches; girth, 8 feet; length 

 of head alone, 2 feet 9 inches; antlers small for so large an 

 animal. 



The widest antlers recorded came from the Kenai Penin- 

 sula and are now in the Field Columbian Museum. They 

 have the following dimensions: Spread at widest point, 78^ 

 inches; greatest width of palmation, 16 inches; circumference 

 of burr, 15 inches; greatest thickness of palmation, %y% inches; 

 length of skull, 28M inches; total number of points, 34; 

 weight of antlers and dry skull, 93^ pounds. 



