The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-10

for the last thirty years. Editors
 moose usually weigh from 1900 up tt
 1,S00 pounds, their bears 800 to 800, ane their deer 250 to $50 pounds. l onct
 saw an account of Canada lynx being shot which weighed 90 pounds. Las week story of a porcupine weighing
 75 pounds was going the rounds of al
 our papers. To show how utterly un-
 reliable these stories are will say tha,
 I have weighed a wildcat which was
 said to have nearly killed two men anc
 a dog, and was said to have weighed 6(
 pounds It weighed just eight and
 quarter pounds, and had been killed by
 a small dog without showing any fight
 or even giving the dog scratch.
 had the skin of one S00-pound bear, and
 200 pounds of meat could not have been
 crowded into it. While sorry that my
 weights do not agree better with those
 of the editors, will give them as
 have found them, by the scales.
 Fully grown moose free from en-
 trails weigh from $50 pounds up to, in some cases, 800 pounds. I have seen a
 moose shot in September when ex- tremely fat which we judged would weigh nearly or quite 1000 pounds. but I never saw one weighed which would come near that. I have seen a COW
 moose weigh $40 pounds. In weighing many hundreds of deer, over 400 in one year, I have never seen but one tip the beam at 25O pounds when free of en- trails. I once skinned a bear which weighed 4O2 pounds clear from entrails
 ,1; largest weighed 435 whole, and 371 when disemboweled As in handling more than 5000 bear skins have never seen fifty as large as these were, I consider that 400 pounds free from all entrails is about the, limit which our Maine bears ever reach. I have the weights of good many Canada lynx and but one exceeds 25 pounds; that one weighed 27. I find wildcats to weigh 20 to 30 pounds, with 35 the ex- treme. Fishers weigh eight to 121s pounds. As the one which weighed 121s made as large a skin as I have ever seen, in handling thousands, I think this is about as large as they ever grow. I have seen skins of raccoons which weighed S6 pounds each, but 15 to 20 is the common weight of fully grown raccoons.
 Red foxes weigh from eight to ten pounds, occasionally 12, and in extreme cases those taken near the seashore weigh IS to 14 pounds. Otter, IS to 20 pounds, some seashore otter up to 25 pounds. Porcupines weigh from 15 to- 20 pounds, sometimes possibly up to 25 and even 30 pounds. Beaver 30 to 40 pounds. I have seen skins from Colum- ba river the owners of which must have weighed 60. I have had skins of foxes and Canadian lynx taken on the north shore of Bale de Chaleur which must have weighed more than the weights given, but those given I con- slider as being the limit reached by Maine animals. I have found cock par fridge (ruffied grouse) usually to weigh "A to 25 ounces. The highest records I have are two, which weighed 31 and 32 ounces, respectively. I have record of black duck weighing over four pounds. The duck was taken in win ter, off the Isle au Haut, and had bright red feet, and seemed somewhat different from those we get in our lakes which weigh from two and one-I half to three and one-half pounds. I have records of the following birds: California condor, weighed by Frank Stevens at Witch Creek, Cal, 2OL pounds; Maine bald eagle, nine and golden eagle, eight and three-quarters; loon, six pounds Il have seen looms which I feel sure would weigh more than this, but had no op- portunity to weigh them.-M. H., in