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was given for one from the Kenai Peninsula shot 

 by Paul Niedieck Oct. 9, 1906. The spread of 

 these antlers is given by Rowland Ward as 77^2 

 inches, but this was probably the measurement 

 before the skull and antlers had dried. This head 

 was exhibited at the Thirteenth German Exhibi- 

 tion of Antlers, held in Berlin in January, 1907. 

 It was then described as having a spread of 193 

 centimeters, or 76 inches, and weighing, with 

 skull_(but without lower jaw), 77 pounds." H. 

 J.^Elwes,7writing in Country Life (London, July 

 30, i9io),''gives the spread as 74 inches, and this 

 agrees with my own measurement, made in Vienna. 

 There are 17+16 points." 



In Yukon Territory of Canada two exceptionally 

 good moose-heads were secured by a party of 

 Peel River Indians in the autumn of 19 12. The 

 Indians were hunting mountain sheep in the 

 Canadian Rockies, at the head of Peel River, 

 within 100 miles of the Arctic Circle, and were 

 above the timber line, when they encountered the 

 moose. Jarvis Mitchell, one of the Indians, 

 killed the larger one with his rifle. The antlers 



*^jD«> Jagd^ Berlin, Feb. 3, 1907. Niedieck describes the capture of 

 the moose in his book Kreuzfahrten im Beringmeer (Berlin, 19^7), p. 

 219. 



"The best European elk-head shown at Vienna measured 53 inches in 

 breadth of spread, and had 23 points. See Chap. xvii. 



