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to dry, thrusting a small knife blade into the 
tips so that the blood and serum, which under- 
lies the skin, may drain from them. However, 
the game laws of most States and Territories 
make it unlikely that you will kill game with 
horns in the velvet. 
If you should kill an antelope late in October 
or November or December you may be shocked 
and surprised on going up to him to find that his 
horns will come off in your hands. These 
animals shed their horn sheaths at the end of 
the year, and for some little time before the 
horns naturally come away, the skin beneath 
them is growing*thicker and is sending out new 
hairs, which finally force the old horn sheaths 
off from the cores. If you should kill an ante- 
lope in this condition and find his horn sheaths, 
save them by all means. The taxidermist can 
put them back on the cores and tack them in 
position. 
The skin, called periosteum, about the core ot 
an antelope’s horn, is thick, and under any con- 
ditions is likely to spoil and to smell badly with- 
in a few days after its being killed. When in 
this condition the horns almost always will slip 
off and may be lost unless care is taken. It is 
well, therefore, to carry the skull of an antelope 
in a gunny sack, because if one sheath is lost 
from an antelope’s skull the head is no longer 
of any value. 
In preparing the head of a bighorn or male 
mountain sheep it is sometimes difficult to cut 
away the skin from the skull immediately be- 
tween the horns. In other words, the horns take 
up so much room on the top of the skull that 
only a narrow line of skin is left between the 
horns, often too narrow to be manipulated. 
Where this is the case it will be necessary to 
cut close about the horns and to leave it to the 
taxidermist to bring together the little tongue of 
skin which runs in between the horns from the 
front and the two points of skin which meet on 
either side of the long neck cut close behind the 
horns. If, however, you take off the skin with 
no bad cuts in it a skillful taxidermist will be 
able to put it up for you in good shape. 
If you have a camera’ with you, it will be well 
for you to make a dozen exposures at the animal’s 
head, taking them at various angles, one from 
directly in front, one from either side, and one from 
above downward. Prints from these photographs 
may be of great assistance to the taxidermist in 
giving him the face modeling, the proper expres- 
sion of which makes all the difference between 
a lifelike head and a mere stuffed skin. It will 
be well for you, while the taxidermist is mount- 
ing the head, and before it becomes dry, to 
watch his work and to give him suggestions— 
which he will welcome—as to how the animal’s 
head looked immediately after it was shot. It 
is rather unusual for taxidermists to get the face 
| modeling, and especially the nose modeling right, 
and if you can help them to do this in the case 
of your own head it will give you great satis- 
faction. 

Favorable Reports from Canada. 
QUEBEC, Oct. 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Phenomenal success has so far attended the 
big-game hunting in this province since the 
opening of the season, the evident increase in 
the supply of moose, in particular, being un- 
doubtedly due to the protective measures un- 
dertaken in late years by the provincial gov- 
ernment, and especially by the local fish and 
game protective associations. This 
has not been confined to any particular sec- 
tion of the country, though it has been more 
noticeable in the Lake St. John territory than 
anywhere else. 
Some very good heads were taken off the 
preserves of the Metabetchouan Fish and 
Game Club, while Lake Edward alone has 
shipped out already nearly a dozen splendid 
trophies since the opening of the season. In 
two of these instances, the spread of antlers 
yas 58 inches each, and a third moose had a 
spread of 56 inches. The two largest moose 
were killed by Mr. W. S. Bond, of Chicago, 
and Mr. Warrington, of Montreal, respective- 
ly, while that of a 56-inch spread of antlers fell 
to the rifle of Mr. Horton, of Windsor Mills. 
success* 

LAKE 
EDWARD 
Mr. Darrow’s Head. 
Other very good heads have been secured on 
the same territory by Messrs. Collins and 
Woodman, of New York; Darrow, of Chicago; 
Redpath, of Montreal, and Thomas, of Phila- 
delphia. 
Dr. Wells, of Quebec, killed a fine caribou 
the other day at Lake Edward, and another 
handsome specimen has been secured on the 
Triton Club preserve by Mr. Vann, of Syra- 
cuse. Two handsome moose heads have ar- 
rived here from the Triton tract, one with a 
spread of 48 inches, killed by Mr. Amos, of 
Syracuse, and another secured by Mr. Top- 
ping, of New York. 
Mayor Garneau, of Quebec, is a well-known 
sportsman, and will be remembered by the 
members of the North American Fish and 
Game Protective Association, who attended 
the last convention of the association in 
Quebec, when he not only delivered an elo- 
quent address of welcome at the City Hall, but 
also presided. at the luncheon given the asso- 
ciation by the city. The mayor was out hunt- 
ing the other day on the preserve of the Laur- 
entide Fish and Game Club, when he heard the 
cry of a bull moose. It was broad daylight, 
and he was walking at the time through a 
light wood. His guide answered the call, and 
almost immediately they knew that the animal 
was quickly approaching them. There was 
none of the crashing through the forest which 
some hunters and writers have described. On 
the contrary, the mayor says the moose ran 
toward them almost stealthily. The only 
sound caused by his approach was an occa- 
sional grunt and now and then the rustling 
caused by his antlers striking some of the 
small branches of trees. Through the open- 
ings in the wood between the trees, the mayor 
was able to see the animal well enough to 
fire at a distance of a hundred yards. Five 
balls were pumped into the advancing moose 
before he fell, at a distance of 65 yards. The 
head is a most symmetrical one, measuring 
56 inches. 
Other specimens were bagged on the limits 
of the Tourilli Fish and Game Club, and in 
the Temiscouata district, where a number of 
fine moose have been killed. Three were 
secured by one party from Philadelphia, con- 
sisting of Mr. R. E. Griscom, Mrs. Griscom 
and R. C. Wright. The largest head, which 
measured 58 inches, is that of Mrs. Griscom’s 
moose. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt and August Belmont 
got a moose and a caribou each while hunting 
near Amqui. 

MOOSE ANTLERS. 
Mr. Bond’s Head. 
Very large herds of caribou are reported 
this season in the locality known as Les Jar- 
dins, back of Baie St. Paul, in the southeast 
corner of the Laurentides National Park. It 
was here that such fine trophies were secured 
last winter by Mr. Emerson McMillin, who 
furnished the money for the purchase of the 
famous Reed collection of natural history 
specimens for the National Collection of Heads 
and Horns. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 
Newfoundland Caribou Hunters. 
St. Joun’s, N.-F., Oct. 26.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Several American hunters have arrived 
in quest of caribou. We have had no reports 
as yet from the deer grounds. The following 
clippings show the whereabouts of some hun- 
ters who have arrived within the-last few days: 
Mr. R. Goelet and wife, of New York, ar- 
tived Friday, and are hunting caribou at 
Birchy Lagke region. 
Messrs. R. W. Stedman and Mason Brenner, 
of Dayton, O., arrived Friday, and left next 
day for Upper Humber. These gentlemen 
were here last fall, and were fairly successful 
in their hunt, and this year they are anxious to 
secure even better caribou heads than those 
obtained last year. 
Messrs. W. L. Hodgkins, B. F. Edgerly, A. 
L. Johnson, of Maine; H. Bramhall Gilbert, 
Sy Weolarciiia. ieeb. Cappen and Dr S:-W: 
Small, of New York, detrained Friday at 
Millertown Junction, and are now caribou 
hunting at Red Indian Lake, where they will 
likely remain three weeks. 
Some weeks ago the body of a dead man 
was found in a place called Gull Marsh, near 
Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. It was evidently 
the remains of a stranger, and it was thought 
at the time that he had been the victim of 
foul plav. It was suggested that perhaps he 
had been one of several parties of American 
sportsmen who had visited that locality earlier 
in the season, but as far as can be learned, 
all the parties when leaving were complete. 
The body when found was headless, and 
from other signs it was thought that murder 
had been done. 
The authorities sent Supt. Sullivan, a shrewd 
and .capable officer, to investigate the matter. 
He and Dr. Parsons exhumed the body, but 
found no signs of willful murder. 
Several theories have been advanced as to 
his identity. I send a clipping describing his 
probable size and weight, and the clothes worn 


