APPENDIX 



A. 



SOME NOTEWORTHY TROPHIES 



British Columbia's claims to a moose-head entitled to rank 

 with the best Kenai specimens seem to be well founded. At 

 page 182 a head is mentioned, "measuring more than 70 

 inches," taken in the Cassiar district by A. S. Reed, the English 

 sportsman, and it is stated that the head had been accidentally 

 destroyed. My informant was the Provincial Game Warden. 

 In The Gun at Home and Abroad, vol. iv., "The Big Game 

 of Asia and North America," (London, 1915), at page 237, 

 John G. Millais writes of this head as follows: 



"Mr. Warburton Pike, whose accuracy cannot be disputed, 

 told me that he was hunting one season [about 1898] with 

 Mr. A. S. Reed ... at the head of Dease Lake, British 

 Columbia, when Mr. Reed shot a bull moose whose head was 

 wider than any previously known. Both Mr. Reed and Mr. 

 Pike measured it, and it was 81 inches across. They stood 

 the head up against their wooden hut, and both went out to 

 hunt. When they returned they found the hut and its con- 

 tents, as well as the moose-head, a heap of ashes, the Indians 

 having forgotten to douse the fire before leaving." 



Assuming that this measurement was correct, there will still 

 be a question whether, when fully dried, the spread of these 

 antlers would have equaled the best Kenai specimens. The 

 palms are said to have been not exceptionally wide. Data 

 regarding the number of prongs, etc., are entirely lacking, and 

 accordingly the Kenai trophies seem to be entitled to retain 



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