and the Maritime Provinces. 



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have been enough authentic ones recorded, based on actual weights and 

 measurements, and not on guesswork, to give a good idea of what this 

 monarch of our northern forests really is. 



" A large moose, undressed, will weigh nine hundred pounds, a very 

 large one, one thousand, and an unusually heavy animal will tip the scales 

 at twelve hundred pounds. The height of such a specimen would be six 

 or six and one-half feet. I have heard of a weight of thirteen hundred 

 pounds being attained, but the record was not authenticated ; the weight of 

 the antlers of such a moose would be about sixty pounds.* 



Photo, by Wm. T. Jenkins. 



Did you ever catch a Moose asleep ? 



* Forest a?id Stream, in its issue of January 23, 1897, describes an 

 immense head that came from Alaska, as follows : — E. A. S. 



" The skull has been split for ease in transportation, but fitting the 

 two halves together, the spread of the antlers is 70 1-4 inches. The length 

 of the right horn, measured from the brow antler to the most distant prong 

 of the palm on the posterior side of the horn, is 55 1-2 inches ; the length 

 of the palm, measured along the curve, is 41 inches, and a straight line 

 drawn from the burr to the most distant point of the palm is 40 inches. 

 The circumference of the shaft of the right antler at 3 inches from the 

 burr is 7 1-2 inches. The width of the palm, measured along its posterior 

 side following the curve, is 43 inches. 



" Another large head of a moose killed by Dr. G. H. Gray, of Lynn, 

 Mass., at Togue pond, in the vicinity of Pockwockamus, on the west branch 

 of the Penobscot, had on one of the antlers 21 points, and on the other 



