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lished in the great private game preserves that are scattered 
from New Hampshire and Massachusetts to Minnesota. In 
addition to these, there are many smaller herds in small 
private parks. Nearly every city north of the Potomac has 
a herd of Elk in one of its parks, and other hardy native 
animals in an establishment known either as a “zoo,” a 
zoological garden, or a zoological park. Thanks to this con- 
stantly increasing public demand for living collections of wild 
animals, the American Elk and buffalo are now familiar 
objects to the children of at least twenty American cities. 
In 1912 a systematic movement was begun for the expor- 
tation of Elk from the Yellowstone Park and for the intro- 
duction of them into states and localities now destitute of 
that species. This work is to be continued indefinitely, and 
many forest areas will thus be stocked. 
Size or Erx.—Professor L. L. Dyche, an exceedingly 
careful observer, has contributed a striking illustration of the 
difficulty of obtaining from a dead Elk an accurate measure- 
ment of the animal’s standing height when alive. The largest 
and finest male Elk ever taken by him (for the State Uni- 
versity of Kansas) fell in Colorado on October 21, 1891. I 
can testify that it is a grand representative of its species. 
As is frequently done, the guide of the party measured its 
height in a line from the point of the hoof to the top of the 
shoulder, and recorded 65 inches. This being. ruled out, the 
bottom of the hoof was held parallel with the axis of the body, 
and the elbow even with the lower line of the brisket. This 
gave 62 inches. Professor Dyche then pushed the elbow 
up to the position it occupies in a standing Elk—about five 
