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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 573

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lanticcoast a couple of centuries ago. Formerly nogame animal of North America, except thecommon or white-tailed deer, was so widelydistributed as the wapiti ; for though its habitatwas, generally speaking, the same as that of thebison, it extended further west and further east.It abounded… … CUwtW (392Wapiti.Av. height at shoulder, 60 in. Av. horn mens. 52 in.Max. horn mcas. 73 in. (right), 64 in. (le/t). melancholy rapidity before the oncoming of therifle-bearing settler. By the beginning of the present century ithad become practically extinct in most regionseast of the Mississippi,…

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