SIZE OF ALASKAN AND OTHER MOOSE 119 
ceptional, and the real type is the same as that found on the 
moose of Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Minnesota. The 
finest antlers on record up to this date in the National Col- 
lection of Heads and Horns, New York, are perfectly regular. 
Their measurements are: spread when taken, 7614 inches; 
spread in 1914, 75 inches; width of palmation, right, 2154, 
left, 18; length in beam, 4114; points 19 + 23. (Page 113.) 
Apparently the Alaskan Moose find in summer an abun- 
dant supply of some food which is particularly rich in horn- 
producing properties, and their enormous and freaky antlers 
are the result. 
Regarding the size of Alaskan and other moose, it is well 
to weigh the best available evidence. 
So far as I am informed, the largest:moose ever killed and 
measured by thoroughly experienced and reliable hands is 
the one already referred to, which was shot in New Brunswick 
by Mr. Carl Rungius, the painter of American animals, whose 
knowledge of the external anatomy of that animal is, as many 
believe, second to that of no other man. The accuracy and 
fairness of Mr. Rungius’s measurements of the animals he 
has so long studied in their wild haunts are beyond question. 
According to Mr. Rungius, the moose here referred to stood 
precisely 84 inches high at shoulders and had a girth of 96 
inches; but “for so large an animal its antlers were rather 
small.”’ 
The following measurements of moose, in inches, are of 
interest in determining the real value of prevailing impres- 
sions regarding the Alaskan animal, and its right to specific 
rank by reason of its great size: 
