June io, igir.] 
897 
A Seventy-one-inch Spread. 
Toronto, Canada, May 29.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The accompanying picture shows Oliver 
Spanner, the Toronto taxidermist, and a pair of 
moose horns that have a spread of seventy-one 
inches. 
The moose from which the horns were taken 
was shot during the open season of 1910 in the 
Temagami Forest Reserve, a few miles from 
Bear Island, Province of Ontario. 
If possible to get photograph of head when 
mounted I shall have much pleasure in sending 
h t0 y° u - E. Tinsley. 
[The seventy-one-inch moose head from On¬ 
tario, the photograph of which we owe to the 
kindness of Mr. Tinsley, possesses a peculiar 
interest. This to be sure is by no means the 
largest head on record, for as long ago as 1897 
we pi inted descriptions and figures of two moose 
heads, one of which measured 70^ inches and 
the other 73/4 inches. There was also recorded, 
if we recollect aright, a head which measured 
78 inches, but as it was mounted, there was al¬ 
ways some suspicion that perhaps the skull might 
have been split and its spread thus increased. 
The interesting point about the head we learn 
of from Mr. Tinsley is that it comes from On¬ 
tario, and we believe that no head approaching 
this in size has previously been brought from 
any Eastern locality. 
Some years ago the Alaska moose was sepa¬ 
rated from the Eastern moose and given sub¬ 
specific rank, and one of the chief characters 
on which this separation was based was size. 
If, however, 70-inch moose head grow in On¬ 
tario, size seems to be a character not to be de¬ 
pended on.— Editor.] 
Audubon Society and Game Protection. 
On Friday, June 2, the board of directors of 
the National Association of Audubon Societies 
voted to accept a contribution of $25,000 a year 
for five years to be used in establishing and 
carrying on a department of game protection, 
the money being contributed by various gun, 
ammunition, powder and shot manufacturers. 
For more than a year the manufacturers of 
arms and ammunition have recognized that the 
continued decrease of the wild game of the coun¬ 
try is certain sooner or later seriously to inter¬ 
fere with the sale of their products, and have 
discussed the question of forming a game pro¬ 
tection association, which will be more effective 
than any body now in existence, which shall 
cover the whole country and shall be managed 
by the best men procurable. 
Within a month or two this matter came to 
a head, and H. S. Leonard, of the Winchester 
Repeating Arms Company, who was the active 
man among the contributors, approached T. Gil¬ 
bert Pearson, Secretary of the Audubon Society, 
with the proposition that the National Associa¬ 
tion of Audubon Societies should establish a 
game protective branch, and should accept the 
contribution of not less than $25,000 for five 
years, to be used for this purpose. The matter 
was carefully considered by the directors of the 
Audubon Society at two largely attended and 
protracted meetings, and at the last of these it 
was determined to accept the contribution. 
It was recognized that this acceptance might 
cause much criticism of the society, but on the 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
SEVENTY-ONE-INCH MOOSE HORNS FROM THE 
TEMAGAMI REGION IN CANADA. 
other hand it seemed clear that the Audubon 
Societies were in a better position to do the 
work effectively than anyone else, for the 
reason that they have an efficient organization 
covering the whole country, and that—with the 
understanding that it should be absolutely free 
and untrammeled in its use of this fund—it could 
do much good with it. 
In its resolutions accepting the contribution, 
the National Association of Audubon Societies 
ALASKA MOOSE HORNS WITH A SPREAD OF 73^4 
INCHES. 
declared in substance that the acceptance was 
absolutely without conditions, except first, that 
the money is to be contributed to the association 
for the purposes of game protection, the asso¬ 
ciation to decide what game protection means; 
and second, that the money should be disbursed 
by the executive officer of the association under 
the direction of the board. 
In the resolutions of acceptance it was ex¬ 
pressly stated that the acceptance of this fund 
does not commit the National Association to any 
policy for or against the use of any particular 
arm or ammunition, but that the association re¬ 
tains in all matters the same freedom of action 
it had always had. 
In Louisiana. 
__ Lew Orleans, La., June 3.— Editor Forest and 
Stitarn. 1 he gift to the Game Commission of 
Louisiana of 13,000 acres or twenty miles of 
marsh land and a number of acres of higher 
land bordering on and near Vermilion Bay by 
C. W. Wiliis and E. A. McIIlhenny, is still the 
talk of hunters and sportsmen. This great re¬ 
serve will be used for ducks, wild geese, brant, 
deer, diamond back terrapins and wild birds in 
general. Mr. Ward, who formerly resided in 
Michigan, says the object of his gift is to en¬ 
courage the propagation of ducks, geese and all 
kinds of game birds, and also the diamond back 
terrapin. Mr. Ward says there is high land in 
the tract where deer can roam and raise their 
young. He is especially anxious to protect the 
ducks, and says the ducks are subjected to the 
fire of hunters from Canada down to Louisiana 
and he feared that they would soon be extermi¬ 
nated. 
Mr. Ward is an enthusiastic hunter and is 
also a horticulturist and naturalist, and has 
achieved a reputation on the raising of certain 
flowers. Lie was not satisfied with the laws in 
Michigan where the Legislature refused to pass 
certain game laws, and he became discouraged 
and came to Louisiana. He says the conserva¬ 
tion laws in Louisiana are the best of any State 
in the Union, and are the most advanced. Mr. 
McIIlhenny is associated with Mr. Ward in the 
donation to the Game Commission and owned 
some of the property. Both men are greatly 
interested in conservation of the natural re¬ 
sources. They say that in addition to game of 
all kinds on this tract to be deeded to the com¬ 
mission, with the use of several thousand acres 
additional, the waters of Vermilion Bay produce 
the best oysters in the South and is also a splen¬ 
did body of water for fishing. F. G. G. 
Enemy of the English Sparrow. 
Dr. Leon J. Cole, of the L T niversity of Wis¬ 
consin, announces that during the months of 
June and July, 1910, English sparrows in the 
vicinity of the College of Agriculture at Madi¬ 
son, were found to be commonly infected with 
a parasitic worm encysted in the skin of the 
abdomen. This parasite has long been known 
in Europe, but only occasionally reported here. 
In the vicinity of Madison it appears to cause a 
certain mortality among the sparrows, and it is 
possible that this may become a means which 
will help, to check the increase of that bird in 
North America. Un fortunate V it attacks also 
other small birds of several families. 
