i84 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



seventy miles north of Winnipeg. It has 18 + 20 

 points and the maximum palmation is 15 inches. 

 It is now the property of E. W. Darby, official 

 taxidermist to the Manitoba Government.'"^ 



Minnesota's Best Head 



In Minnesota a symmetrical 64-inch head fell 

 to the rifle of H. C. Percival, a Canadian, in the 

 late '90s. This is probably the Minnesota record. 

 The moose was killed in St. Louis County. 



Ontario's best moose-head was taken at Round 



'4 Ernest Thompson Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals 

 (vol. i., p. 155), quoting Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game, mentions 

 a 65-inch Manitoba head belonging to Otho Shaw. Early editions of 

 Ward's Records described this head as having 24 inches' breadth of 

 palm and 13 + 14 points, but in the latest edition of the work the head 

 is not mentioned. The authenticity of the data seems to be in doubt. 



