HEADS AND HORNS 



Several noteworthy moose-heads have been 

 subjects of dispute, New Brunswick and Maine 

 both claiming them. This was the case with a 

 head formerly in the possession of the late Albert 

 Bierstadt. It spread 6^]4 inches, and had more 

 than 30 points. This moose was killed in 1880 near 

 the international boundary, but probably on the 

 New Brunswick side.'^ The Province has occasion- 

 ally failed to receive the credit to which it was 

 entitled for a notable head, by reason of the 

 fact that the sportsman shipped his prize to a 

 foreign taxidermist for mounting. 



Nova Scotia, like Maine, will perhaps lose- 

 credit for its best moose-heads, owing to lack of 

 authentic data regarding trophies secured many 

 years ago. The Chief Game Commissioner of the 

 Province has recently instituted inquiries with a 

 view to securing such information as can now be 

 obtained on this subject. He writes that an 

 Indian called Lone Cloud in the fall of 1903 secured 

 a head in Guysboro County spreading 63 inches, 

 with 34 points. 



A head with antlers spreading 59 inches, and 

 with 34 points, was taken in Guysboro County 

 in 1910 by L. G. Ferguson of Westville. This 



*7 See Seventh Report N. Y. State Forest, Fish, and Game Commission , 

 p. 232. 



