SIZE OF ALASKAN AND OTHER MOOSE 119 



ceptional, and the real type is the same as that found on the 

 moose of Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Minnesota. The 

 finest antlers on record up to this date in the National Col- 

 lection of Heads and Horns, New York, are perfectly regular. 

 Their measurements are: spread when taken, 76^ inches; 

 spread in 1914, 75 inches; width of palmation, right, 21^, 

 left, 18; length in beam, 41J^; points 19 + 23. (Page 113.) 



Apparently the Alaskan Moose find in summer an abun- 

 dant supply of some food which is particularly rich in horn- 

 producing properties, and their enormous and freaky antlers 

 are the result. 



Regarding the size of Alaskan and other moose, it is well 

 to weigh the best available evidence. 



So far as I am informed, the largest moose ever killed and 

 measured by thoroughly experienced and reliable hands is 

 the one already referred to, which was shot in New Brunswick 

 by Mr. Carl Rungius, the painter of American animals, whose 

 knowledge of the external anatomy of that animal is, as many 

 believe, second to that of no other man. The accuracy and 

 fairness of Mr. Rungius's measurements of the animals he 

 has so long studied in their wild haunts are beyond question. 

 According to Mr. Rungius, the moose here referred to stood 

 precisely 84 inches high at shoulders and had a girth of 96 

 inches; but "for so large an animal its antlers were rather 

 small." 



The following measurements of moose, in inches, are of 

 interest in determining the real value of prevailing impres- 

 sions regarding the Alaskan animal, and its right to specific 

 rank by reason of its great size: 



