Part 25

TABULATED SERIES

With name of owner, and locality and date of capture.

BISON BULL.

Girth. Length. 1. P. Liebinger, Western Montana, '93 12-1/2 19 2. Theodore Roosevelt, Medora, N. D., Sept., '83 12-3/4 14 3. Theodore Roosevelt, S. W. Montana, Sept., '89 12-1/2 17-1/2

No. 2 was an old stub-horn bull, the animal being bigger in body than No. 3, which, like No. 1, was a bull in the prime of life.

F. Sauter, the taxidermist, exhibited a head killed in Montana in 1894, which measured 14 inches in girth and 18 inches in length.

In Ward's book the horns of the biggest bison given measure 15 inches in girth and 20-7/8 inches in length.

BIG-HORN SHEEP.

Girth. Length. Spread. 4. Geo. H. Gould, Lower Cal., Dec., '94 16-1/4 42-1/2 25-3/4 5. G. O. Shields, Ashnola River, B. C. 16-1/4 37-3/4 22-1/2 6. Arch. Rogers, N. W. Wyoming 16 34 17 7. Arch. Rogers, N. W. Wyoming 15-1/2 33-1/2 23 8. T. Roosevelt, Little Mo. River, N. D. 16 29-1/2 18-1/2

No. 4 had the tip of one horn broken; it is on the whole the finest head of which we have any record.

No. 5 was a very heavy head, the horns huge and with blunted tips.

A head was exhibited by C. G. Gunther's Sons which measured 17-3/4 inches in girth, although it was but 33-1/2 inches in length.

In Buxton's catalogue the three biggest rams exhibited by English sportsmen had horns which measured respectively, in girth and length, 15-3/4 and 39 inches, 16-3/8 and 38-1/4 inches, and 16-1/2 and 31 inches.

In Ward's catalogue the biggest specimen given had horns which were 17-1/4 inches in girth and 41 inches in length.

WHITE GOAT.

Girth. Length. 9. Walter James, Swift Current River, Mont., '92 5-3/4 10-1/2 10. T. Roosevelt, Big Hole Basin, Mont., Aug., '89 5-1/16 9-1/16 11. Theodore Roosevelt, Heron, Mont., Sept., '86 5 9-3/4

No. 11 was a female; as the horns of the female white goat always are, these horns were a little longer and slenderer than those of No. 10, which was a big-bodied buck.

In Buxton's catalogue the biggest horns given were 5 inches in girth and 8-1/4 inches in length. The two biggest specimens given in Ward's were 5 inches in girth by 10-1/8 inches, and 5-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches.

MUSK OX.

There was no musk ox head exhibited by an amateur sportsman. One, which was exhibited by W. W. Hart & Co., had horns each of which was 29-3/4 inches by 20-1/2 inches; the height of the boss was 13 inches. One of the members of the Boone and Crockett Club, Mr. Caspar W. Whitney, has this year, 1895, killed a number of musk ox; but he did not return from his winter trip to the Barren Grounds until June.

PRONGBUCK.

Girth. Length. 12. Theodore Roosevelt, Medora, N. D., Sept., '84 6-1/2 16 13. A. Rogers 6 12-1/2 14. A. Rogers 6-1/4 10-7/8

No. 13 measured from tip to tip 6-1/8 inches. The greatest width inside the horns was 8-5/8 inches; the corresponding figures for No. 14 were 7-3/4 and 10-1/4 inches.

In Buxton's catalogue the largest measurements given were for a specimen which girthed 5-1/8 inches, and was in length 15-3/4 inches.

In Ward's catalogue the two biggest specimens given measured respectively 15-3/4 inches in length by 6-1/4 inches in girth, and 12-7/8 inches in length by 6-1/2 inches in girth.

WAPITI OR ROUND-HORN ELK.

Girth. Length. Spread. Points. 15. A. Rogers, Northwestern Wyoming 8 64-1/4 48 7+7 16. G. O. Shields, Clark's Fork, Wyo. 8-1/4 51-3/8 50 6+7 17. T. Roosevelt, Two Ocean Pass, '91 6-7/8 56-1/2 46-3/8 6+6 18. T. Roosevelt, Two Ocean Pass, '91 7-3/4 50-3/4 47 6+6 19. P. Liebinger, Indian Creek, Mont. 6-1/8 50-1/2 54 8+8

No. 15, as far as we know, is the record head for amateur sportsmen in point of length.