ANTLERS OF THE ELK 



the total killed than is that of 40-inch heads to the 

 total killed in Norway."^ 



Two Swedish heads are described by Ward, 

 spreading 49 and 46 inches respectively. The 

 latter, belonging to Capt. Ferrand, has 10+10 

 points, ii>2 inches breadth of palm and 7^ inches 

 circumference of beam. A fine specimen of 

 Scandinavian elk antlers presented to the New 

 York Zoological Society by William T. Hornaday 

 in 1906 spreads 45 inches, and the breadth of 

 palmation is 9 inches. There are 11 + 12 points. 



The best Russian head described in Ward's 

 Records belongs to Prince E. Demidoff. It 

 measures 48 inches, has 10+9 points, 11^ inches 

 breadth of palm, and 8^ inches circumference of 

 beam. It was taken near Petrograd. Better 

 heads, taken in the government of Minsk, in West 

 Russia, are mentioned by J. G. Millais in an 

 article on "The European Elk and Its Horns," 

 in Country Life (London, July 30, 19 10). Euro- 

 pean antlers in general show less tendency to the 

 formation of a distinct group of brow prongs than 

 in the case of the moose of America. 



The development of the antlers Is naturally less 

 rapid in the elk of western Europe than in the case 



^ Blackwood's Magazine, August, 1908." 



