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37 inches, tail, ij inches, femur to humerus, 20^ 

 inches, across chest, 4^ inches, height at shoulders, 

 33 inches, depth of body, 9^ inches, height at 

 elbow, 21 inches. One secured by me on the 

 Kenai Peninsula, October 30, evidently just about 

 five months old, measured : length, 88 inches, tail, 



4 inches, femur to humerus, 54 inches, across 

 chest, 1 1 inches, height at shoulders, 67 J inches, 

 height at elbow, 40 inches. It had grown in 

 five months 41 inches in length, 34^ inches in 

 height, 6^ inches in width of chest, and 19 inches 

 in length of foreleg below the elbow. A carefully 

 estimated weight of the five-months-old calf as 

 it stood alive was fully 600 pounds; the one a 

 week old about 65 pounds. Comparative meas- 

 urements prove, however, that the first season ex- 

 periences the most rapid growth. Comparing these 



