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a cabin for the winter, and was destroyed with the 

 burning of the cabin. Many good heads are found 

 in the northern part of the Province, but in the 

 Rocky Mountain region of southern British Colum- 

 bia and the neighboring section of the United 



Cast Antlers Found in British Columbia 



States moose are few in number and the heads 

 very inferior. 



Alberta has produced a number of moose-heads 

 with antlers spreading about 65 inches. Benjamin 

 Lawton, Chief Game Guardian, writes that a 

 head with a spread of 66 inches, taken in the 

 northern part of the Province, is the widest of which 

 he has any knowledge. 



The best Manitoba moose-head, in the opinion 

 of the Chief Game Guardian of the Province, is 

 one measuring 61 inches taken in 191 1 sixty or 



