HEADS AND HORNS 



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inches. The taxidermist's record of the time 

 when the moose was killed, and the place, together 

 with the number of points and other data, was 

 destroyed in the great fire which visited Bangor in 

 191 1. Rowland Ward describes 61 American 

 moose-heads in his Records of Big Game, These 

 include two from Maine with spread between 

 57 and 58 inches. Maine taxidermists, when 

 requested recently by the Game Commissioners 

 to furnish information of the best heads which had 

 passed through their hands, reported mounting 

 a number of heads having a spread of from 58 

 to 60 inches. 



A head which once held the New Brunswick 

 record for spread was secured by Dr. Walter L. 

 Munro of Providence, R. L, on the Nepisiguit 

 River, October 12, 1907. The breadth was 68% 

 inches when killed. It has 7+10 points, and 16 

 inches' width of palmation, with heavy beams. 



Antlers measuring 67 inches in breadth were 

 secured in New Brunswick in October, 1898, by 

 F. H. Cook of Leominster, Mass. They have 

 shrunk by the drying of antlers and skull to 65 X 

 inches. They have 13 + 10 points. 



Stephen Decatur, now of Kittery Point, Me., 

 killed a moose on the Serpentine branch of the 

 Tobique River, N. B., Sept. 11, 1897, whose antlers 



