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Show 1903.] THE ELK IN NORWAY. 145 across, I have heard on fairly good authority of one over 6 feet in span. (This was written before anything was known of the gigantic heads found in Alaska.) With i egaid to the comparative size and weight of the Elk and Moose, I cannot speak positively, as it has never been possible to weigh an entire animal in the places where I have killed them. Mr. Abel Chapman, however, gives me the following weights of a bull, of fair but not unusual size, killed by him on Sept. 15th :- Kilogrammes. Kilogrammes. Head with skin of neck .. 40 = 40 Shoulders ............................ - 42 each = 84 Haunches with feet ........... 54 „ = 108 Sides ..................................... 40 „ = 80 Neck and back ................... 60 = 60 Skin, say ............................. 30 = 30 Total ... ... 402 This would make the weight of the living animal at least 1000 pounds or over, as the intestines are enormous. Capt. Ferrand's best bull, a 10-year old, weighed 1240 English pounds without the intestines. The pace of Elk, when undisturbed, is a slow walk, and their movements are very deliberate, but they can trot for many miles over boggy and rough ground at a pace of 6 oi* 8 miles an hour, and occasionally when much frightened break into a lumbering canter. The female Elk has her first calf at three years old in the month of May, which makes the period of gestation about 7 months. Usually she has only one, but not unfrequently two calves, which grow very rapidly, and by the end of September are as big as a red-deer hind. They suck their dams until late in the winter, and keep company with them until another calf is dropped, and sometimes longer. They have occasionally been tamed in Sweden and taught to go in harness, but owing to the difficulty of feeding them they are not easy to keep in confinement. I have seen, however, in the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam a cow Moose which is said to have been about 20 years in confinement, and I hope that we shall be equally successful with the one which was captured by Mr. Nickalls and presented by him to our Gardens. Statistics of the number of Elk killed in Norway in the season of 1894. (Translated from the 1 Tidsskrift Norsk. Jaeger og Fisker Forenings,' Heft 3, 1895.) Name of Arat. No. of Bulls. No. of Cows. Total. Smaalenene..................... 8 3 Akershus......................... 67 60 12/ Hedemarken ................ 74 72 146 TT rne+.ifms......................... 90 87 177 P r o c . Z o o l . Soc- 1903, V o l . I. No. X. 10 |