American Big Game in its Haunts 



tographs of both of these heads appear herewith. 

 Many very handsome heads have been taken in the 

 Ottawa district, sometimes running well over five 

 feet. It is safe to assume that a little short of six 

 feet is the extreme width of an eastern head. 



The moose of the Rocky Mountains are rela- 

 tively smaller than the eastern moose, and their 

 antlers are seldom of imposing proportions. 



As we go north into British Columbia, through 

 the headwaters of the Peace and Liard rivers, the 

 animal becomes very large in size, perhaps larger 

 than anywhere else in the world as far as his body 

 is concerned, and it is highly probable that some- 

 where in this neighborhood the range of the giant 

 Alaska moose begins. The species, however, does 

 not show great antler development in this locality, 

 but for some reason the antlers achieve their maxi- 

 mum development in the Kenai Peninsula. 



In the Kenai Peninsula and the country around 

 Cook Inlet, Alaska, with an unknown distribu- 

 tion to south and east, we find the distinct species 

 recently described as Alces gigas. The animal 

 itself has great bulk, but perhaps not more so than 

 the animals of the Cassiar Mountains, to which 

 it is closely related. The antlers of these 

 Alaska moose are simply huge, running, on the 

 average, very much larger and more complex than 



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