ought to be confined to the American species, and that maral is a better name for the Central Asiatic deer of the wapiti type.
Asiatic roe are also exhibited, and show an extraordinary variety in the set and pearling of the horns, though I saw none in the Exhibition quite equal to Herr Hagenbeck’s record head.
Count Ludwig Apponyi shows a very fine collection of moufflon heads and skins from his estate in North-West Hungary, where this handsome sheep seems to have become perfectly naturalised. It was first introduced from Corsica by Graf Fogatsch about seventy years ago into the Nitra comitat. The size of the horns seemed at least equal, if not superior, to the best I have seen from Corsica and Sardinia. The first prize for moufflon was, however, awarded to Chevalier Wessely for a pair of horns 33·85 inches round the curve and 9·49 inches in circumference at the base. (This measurement was taken by Herr Gustav Schuster of Vienna, editor of Halayi at the request of the editor of Country Life.) Only one slightly longer is recorded by Rowland Ward from Sardinia, and this is ¾ inch less in circumference. I saw no heads of the Cyprian or Armenian wild sheep. Some very fine moose heads from Alaska are shown by Paul Niedieck, one of which, with seventeen points on each side, measures 6 feet 2 inches across, and is one of the most im¬ posing heads in the exhibition. Herr Schuster's measurement was 77·16 inches in spread, and the weight (presumably with the head) is given as ninety-four and a half pounds. It received the first prize in its class. Another, killed in the Kenai Peninsula in 1909 by Rudolph von Guttmann, has nineteen points on each side, and a third, killed on the Macmillan river by Mr. Selous, comes very near it in size and symmetry. This is shown in the British Pavilion, and has the right-hand palm so thick that it is partly divided into two layers. Philip Oberlander shows a fine Stone’s sheep head from Cassiar, and also one of the race known as O. nelsoni from Lower California.
The caribou heads in this building are not so fine as those shown in the Canadian Government building, where Mr. W. Pike has brought together a splendid selection of heads from British North America, which are separately described.
Elk from Sweden and Norway are better shown than I have ever seen them previously, and afford an excellent opportunity of comparing the heads from these countries. The finest Swedish elk is sent by Herr Rothmann, from Murjeck, and measures 4 feet 8 inches in span, and 2 feet 8 inches from the highest point of the shovel to the longest point on the brow. It has on the left twelve and on the right eleven well-developed points, measures 8 inches in girth above the brow, and its weight is given as twenty-five kilogrammes. It received the first prize. Another, from Jockmock in Lapland, is evidently that of a very old bull, and has twenty-four rugged points, and there are three others of a somewhat different and more erect type from Nederkalix, Bracke and Helsingland, the latter with twenty-four very regular and well-shaped points.
A very curious Norwegian elk head has on the right antler five points turned upward and three downward, while the seven on the left are all
