112 HOOFED ANIMALS 
Height at shoulders..........0 22-0. ee ee ee eee . 87 inches. 
Height, at Hips .i6 acavaaagaetaecmnegee teres boy am 31 inches. 
Length of head and body.....................05-- 42 inches. 
Depth of chestyjada bases 9: 24494 e080 b4 SIOISE SS 11 inches. 
Length of fore leg to elbow.......... 2.1... cee eee 26 inches. 
WEITERE acer acice: So dctabece seme taubay aati ats ice Sarna oes 79 pounds. 
At one year of age, if not stunted in growth, a Moose 
stands 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet in height at the shoulders, 
where it has developed a lofty hump. On August 14, 1901, 
the largest of six Moose in the New York Zoological Park, 
each one about fifteen months old, measured as follows: 
Height, 5 feet 3 inches; length, head and body, 5 feet 9 inches; 
length of tail, 314 inches; depth of chest, 2 feet 2 inches; horns, 
4 inches long; weight, 330 pounds. 
Any Moose which stands 6 feet 6 inches in height at the 
shoulders may be considered a very large one, a prize, in fact. 
The largest Moose of which I have a reliable record was killed 
in New Brunswick, in 1901, by Carl Rungius, the justly cele- 
brated animal painter, and carefully measured by him with 
the following result: Height of shoulders, 7 feet, exactly; 
length of head and body, 9 feet 7 inches; girth, 8 feet; length 
of head alone, 2 feet 9 inches; antlers small for so large an 
animal. 
The widest antlers recorded came from the Kenai Penin- 
sula and are now in the Field Columbian Museum. They 
have the following dimensions: Spread at widest point, 7814 
inches; greatest width of palmation, 16 inches; circumference 
of burr, 15 inches; greatest thickness of palmation, 21% inches; 
length of skull, 2834 inches; total number of points, 34; 
weight of antlers and dry skull, 9314 pounds. 
