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three carrying forty-eight points, and one of my own and 

 a pair of dropped horns in the possession of Mr. H. Prichard 

 have forty-nine, but I have never yet seen a Newfoundland 

 fifty-pointer, although I am quite convinced that three or 

 four heads with this large number of points have been killed 

 within recent years. In 1905 and 1906 I picked up three 

 horns on which are twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-six 

 points respectively. Any of these may have belonged to a 

 fifty-pointer, but as in no case did I find the corresponding 

 antler, the case must remain in doubt. The following notes 

 of big heads I have collected at various times, though it 

 must be remembered that nearly every Indian and white 

 man exaggerates both the size of the head as well as the 

 number of points, so the reader can accept the evidence 

 or reject it as hearsay as he pleases. 



Micky John, an Indian, told me in 1906 that he knew 

 of a pair of dropped antlers near the Gander which had 

 fifty-three points ; he had seen and counted them twice. 

 In 1904 Nicholas Jeddore shot a fifty-point head, and sold 

 it to a Mr. Taylor, a surveyor in St. John's. Joe Bernard, 

 late chief of the Micmacs, and Peter John had each seen 

 one fifty-pointer during their lives. 



Very few Newfoundland horns exceed 39 inches in length. 

 The general character is rather short and thick, with more 

 massive brows and bays — that is middle palms — than those 

 of other local races. If they have a manifest weakness it 

 is in the " tops," which are often poor and thin, and a 

 head which carries good double brows, bays, and tops is 

 indeed a great rarity. 



I have killed several over 40 inches in length, and in 1905 

 one of 46 inches, and this was the longest I had noticed 

 in any public or private collection until the autumn of 



