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splendid pairs of antlers, certainly finer than 

 those of the first three caribou I had shot, and 

 since, as yet, there are no restrictions as 

 regards the numbers of game that may be 

 shot in the Yukon territory, I should have 

 contravened no law but that of my own con- 

 science had I added their heads to mv collection 

 of trophies. 



I now examined the two slain stags. They 

 were both magnificent specimens of the finest 

 race of caribou on the North American con- 

 tinent. The horns of the one measured over 

 fifty-seven inches in length, those of the 

 other fifty-one inches, and they were both 

 of them very big heavy animals in splendid 

 condition. 



I preserved the skin of the one with the 

 longest pair of horns yevj carefull}'", for mount- 

 ing, and this splendid animal may now be seen 

 in the mammalian gallery of the Natural 

 History Museum, at South Kensington, side by 

 side with a specimen of the Newfoundland race 

 of caribou, which I brought home f]"om that 

 island in 1905. Both these specimens have 



