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across, | have heard on fairly good authority of one over 6 feet in 
span, (This was written before anything was known of the 
gigantic heads found in Alaska.) 
With regard to the comparative size and weight of the Elk and 
Moose, I cannot speak positively, as it has never been possible to 
weigh an entire animal in the places where I have killed them. 
Mr. Abel Ch: apman, however, gives me the following weights of 
a bull, of fair but not unusual size, killed by him on Sept. 1 15th :-— 
Kilogrammes. Kilogrammes. 
Head with skin of neck ...... 4() = 40 
Shoullderssk cheat Secs 42 each = 84 
Haunches with feet ............ 5A eS 
Sidlesk nce eee eee ene A (ee) 
IWiealke ermal eevee soosnacoocasonadec 60 = 60 
Skeimy, Sanya saat easement ans 3 = 30 
Motalleeee 402 
This would make the weight of the living animal at, least 
1000 pounds or over, as the intestines are enormous. 
Capt. Fervand’s best bull, a 10-year old, weighed 1240 English 
pounds without the intestines. 
The pace of Elk, when undisturbed, is a slow walk, and their 
movements are very deliberate, but they can trot for many 
miles over boggy and rough eround at a pace of 6 or 8 miles an 
hour, and oceasionally when much frightened break into a 
lumbering canter. 
The female Elk has her first calf at three years old in the month 
of May, which makes the period of gestation about 7 months. 
Usually she has only one, but not unfrequently two calves, which 
erow very rapidly, and by the end of September are as big as a 
red-deer hind. They suck thei dams until late in the winter, 
and keep company with them until another calf is dropped, and 
sometimes longer. They have occasionally been tamed in Sweden 
and taught to go in harness, but owing to the difficulty of feeding 
them they are not easy to keep in confinement. I have seen, 
however, in the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam a cow Moose 
which is said to have been about 20 years in confinement, and 
T hope that we shall be equally successful with the one which was 
captured by Mr. Nickalls and presented by him to our Gardens. 
Statistics of the number of Elk killed in Norway in the season 
of 1894. (Translated from the ‘Tidsskrift Norsk. Jeger og 
Fisker Forenings,’ Heft 3, 1895.) 
Name of Amt. No. of Bulls. No. of Cows. Total. 
Smaalenene............... 8 3 Tl 
INEGTESINUE scabcoseuesscocsce 67 60 937/ 
Hedemarken ............ 74 a2, 146 
Konishiansry. «cast saseemee 9() 87 177 
Proc. Zoo. Soc.—1903, Vou. I. No. X. 10 
