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densis) as a basis, we find that the dressed weight represents 
.78612 of the live weight, or 3% of the whole animal. 
The dressed weight being given, in pounds, add to it five 
ciphers, divide by 78612, and the result will be the live weight, 
an pounds. 
While this rule will often prove convenient, the author 
desires to state that none of the weights recorded in this 
volume were obtained by it; and any weight so obtained and 
published always should be marked “‘as calculated.” 
The longest and widest Elk antlers are not necessarily the 
handsomest. Usually antlers that are of great length are slen- 
der, whereas the finest pairs are those of massive proportions, 
fairly symmetrical, and about 60 inches long. One of the 
longest pairs in America, so far as known, measures 63 inches 
in length of main beam, following curve, 64 inches in widest 
outside spread, between the bez and trez tines has a circumfer- 
ence of 85 inches, and 6+6 points. It is from Wyoming, and 
is owned by Dr. John C. Phillips, of Wenham, Massachusetts. 
Elk-hunting is not always as fine sport as the noble indi- 
viduality of this animal would naturally lead the hunter to 
expect. Very often the Elk is unsuspicious, to the point of 
stupidity. There have been many times when attacking a 
herd was too much like attacking a herd of cattle. It is not 
an animal of “highly-wrought-nervous” temperament, like 
the deer, but when startled is too much given to hesitating 
and seeking knowledge, before it dashes away to safety. 
During recent years various important steps have been 
taken, by private individuals only, toward restoring the Elk 
to the Adirondack forests, which it once inhabited. In 1901, 
