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Trondhjems-amt, where the Elk a few years ago was extremely 
numerous, much larger heads occurred, owing, I believe, to the much 
greater quantity of mountain-ash, which seems to be the favourite 
winter food of the Elk, and which has been to a great extent 
destroyed by the vast number of animals constantly devouring it. 
Out of the whole number of bulls I have killed, about twenty, 
only four or five had horns of the type shown in Liénnberg’s 
Text-fig. 26. 
One-horned Elk in Ipswich Museum. 
figures 1, 4, 6, and 9; and all of these, with one exception, 
appeared to be quite young animals. 
Among the hunters who accompanied me in different years 
were a Swede, a Norwegian, and a Lapp, all of whom knew the 
Elk of those districts most intimately, and were considered the 
most experienced hunters of their districts. None of them ever 
even suggested the possibility of two races of Elk existing ; and I 
