APPENDIX 



359 





Gihb 



Caswell 





Darrow 



spread 



69^ 



62^ 





62| 



Points 



27 



27 



18 +16 



= 34 



Palmation 



24 



28 



I5i + i3f 



= 29^ 



Beam 



17 



15 



7iX2 



= 15 



Totals . 



. 137^ 



132^ 





140I 



The antlers of Mr. Darrow's moose are very symmetrical, 

 and the area of palmation is exceptional. The bay, which usually 

 separates the brow group of prongs from the main antler, is 

 in each case lacking. 



New Brunswick. — Some of the New Brunswick game offi- 

 cials remark in recent years on the growing scarcity of good 

 heads among the moose of the Province. Nevertheless, in his 

 latest report the Chief Game Warden says : "Among the moose 

 killed [in 19 18] some fairly large heads have been reported, 

 two of them measuring 64 inches, and quite a number between 

 56 and 60 inches." 



The widest spread to which New Brunswick can lay claim 

 is 715^ inches. Lazare Russell, a lumberman, living at 

 Tracadie, N. B., encountered this moose near the head of the 

 Nepisiguit River October 10, 191 7, and when at close quarters 

 shot it below the eyes. Three or four weeks later I saw this 

 head at Davis's taxidermist shop in Fredericton. Except in 

 respect to breadth of spread it is very ordinary. There are 

 9-|-ii points; the palmation measures 10^ inches right, 9^ 

 inches left; circumference of beam, 6^ inches right, 6^ 

 inches left. The antlers, and Charles Cremin, a Nepisiguit 

 River guide, are shown in an illustration opposite page 187. 



Another fine head, in most respects superior to the Russell 

 trophy, was taken on Restigouche waters the same season, by 

 Joseph Arseneau of Charlo, N. B. I measured these antlers 

 in Fredericton, in November, 19 19. They spread 63 J4 inches, 

 and have 15+20 points. The maximum palmation is I2j4 

 inches right, 15 inches left; circumference of beam, 8 inches 



