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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



THE WORLD-RECORD WHITE-TAILED DEER HEAD. 



WHILE we are not unduly zealous regarding 

 antler 1 , of deer, elk, moose and caribou that 

 widely depart from the standard horn archi- 

 tecture of their respective species, it is yet 

 well worth while for the National Collection of Heads 

 and Horns to contain a sufficient number of extra-fine 

 examples to illustrate the kinds of antlers that are 

 popularly known as "freaks." Naturally, the varia- 

 tions in freak antlers are very many, and in our view 

 it is only the finest examples, or the strangest forms, 

 that are worth considering. 



Last year the State of Maine yielded the remark- 

 able White-Tailed Deer head shown above. It came 



to us as the gift of Mr. Henry A. Caesar, of the 

 Zoological Society, and was mounted and furnished 

 by the S. L. Crosby Company, of Bangor, Maine. 



The antlers of Mr. Caesar's gift are very long, very 

 massive and wide, and fortunately retain all the 

 characteristic horn architecture of the Northern 

 White-Tailed Deer. The measurements are as fol- 

 lows: — Length of beam, 29; circumference, 6; widest 

 (outside) spread, 27%; points, 18 + 24. 



These measurements, taken all in all, seem to make 

 this splendid head No. t in the world's list of the 

 greatest heads of this species. 



