THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
prized. Most of these examples are in American collections, but I have 
seen a few in Canada and one or two are in English collections. 
This is one of those trophies the measurements of which, unfortunately, 
are quite hopeless in giving the true value of the antlers. The head which 
tops the list in Ward’s Measurements, and is 34 inches in length, is 
in my possession. It is certainly a magnificent example, but I have seen 
and measured many much finer. The head in question was killed on the 
Powder River, Wyoming, in 1885. Quite the best I have ever seen was 
one belonging to Mr E. S. Cameron, and killed by him in Montana. It is 
perfect in every particular and yet only measures 29 inches in length; 
yet it is 6| inches in circumference, 29§ inches tip to tip, and has fourteen 
points. Another remarkable head I have measured is one shot by Mr 
H. A. James in Colorado. It is 41 inches in spread and also very thick. 
The late Andrew Williamson shot a very massive head in Colorado, 
with a span of 36 inches, and one I measured in Banff was 39 inches in 
span, the same figure attained by one killed in Chilcotin and owned by 
Mr Sage in Vancouver. The most massive head of which I possess a photo 
is one killed at Vernon, British Columbia, in 1892, and now owned by 
Mr W. F. Cameron. The whole main beam is palmated and covered on 
the top and outside by a perfect little forest of points, which are said to 
number forty-seven. The Earl of Lonsdale has a head (killed in Montana) 
with twenty-nine points and Mr C. R. Lutwidge has one from Wyoming 
with forty points and 32 inches in length. Mr Baillie-Grohmann, and the 
late Sir H. Seton-Karr each showed a fine head of twenty-six points at the 
American Exhibition in 1887. Scattered about in various homes in the 
west, particularly in Colorado, are many splendid examples, as good or 
nearly as fine as the above, but the measurements of most of these have 
not yet been recorded. 
The mule deer is a partially migratory species which leaves the high 
ranges, in which large numbers live in summer, for the foothills and even 
the “bad-lands” in winter. Nearly all move for short or longer distances, 
varying from 20 to 150 miles in October, and follow well-defined trails. 
In Colorado they migrate in October with regularity, seeking the low hills 
where the heavy snow does not lie. Most of these move westwards for 100 
to 200 miles into the Uintah country in Utah. In many parts of Wyoming, 
Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba and Idaho, the mule deer is 
not migratory, being found in the same ranges of low hills at all seasons. 
Here they will stay unless subject to constant persecution, only circling 
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