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be intermediate between the eastern and far 

 western races of this animal. Although in 

 the East Yukon country a moose head with 

 a spread of up^vards of sixty inches is well 

 above the average, such a head is much less 

 exceptional in size than it w^ould be in Eastern 

 Canada. 



In my own experience during two short trips 

 to the upper Macmillan, I only saw six full 

 grown moose bulls, and of these I shot five. 

 The horns of the biggest had a spread of sixty- 

 seven inches when first shot, and now measure 

 sixty-six. Another had a spread of sixty-four 

 inches (it now measures sixty-three and a half). 

 The horns of the other three measured in 

 spread fifty-eight and a half inches, fifty-three 

 and a half inches, and forty-seven inches. 



My largest pair of horns, when put on the 

 scale at Selkirk, about a month after the animal 

 to which they originally belonged was shot, 

 weighed with the skull seventy-five pounds. 

 The two horns in this specimen had not grown 

 quite symmetrically. Had the right horn not 

 been a little crumpled and bent inwards 



