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also to the northward of Salmon Lake, being occasionally seen 

 at the border of that body of water. However, it is in the 

 region about Grog Brook that I saw most signs of their pres- 

 ence, and it was no trouble to find a dozen fresh tracks any 

 morning of my stay there, both on the barrens and in the 

 forest. Several deeply worn game trails cross Grog Brook 

 and the barrens on either side, and during my stay neither 

 the moose nor caribou seemed to use them, it being then 

 probably too late in the season. It is no trouble to get a 

 caribou in that section. 



" I was told however by many guides that the best section of 

 country for this species during September is the region just 

 north of the Patapedia River, reached by portage road from 

 Amqui, a small place on the Intercolonial Railway." (T. S.) 



2. Alces americanus. 



Alces americanus. Jard. Nat. Libr. , 1835, Mamm., p. 125. 



No specimens obtained. 



In Quebec on the north shore of the St. Lawrence the 

 moose is very rarely niet with. The species was nearly exter- 

 minated in many localities, but a law prohibiting any one to shoot 

 a moose for five years gave the animals a chance to increase their 

 numbers, and the}' began to appear again in their old haunts. 

 On the south side of the river, especially in New Brunswick, they 

 are not uncommon. 



"Moose are found sparingly throughout the region visited, 

 being common only in the vicinity of Two Brooks on the Resti- 

 gouche and further up the Restigouche and Patapedia Rivers. 

 While at Salmon Lake, early one foggy morning I got quite 

 close to two moose, but they made off in a hurry on seeing me. 

 During my stay at Dalhousie a bull moose was seen two or three 

 times in an old meadow within the town limits, very early in the 

 mornings on each occasion. The Restigouche region is the best 

 moose country in Eastern Canada, thanks to a wise law, and 

 before I left there the latter part of September I heard of several 

 sportsmen who had secured their moose. One was killed within 

 the limits of the town of Riviere du Loup in September. Moose 

 are rather scarce in the region about Lake Edward and on my 

 canoe trip to Lake Ecarte I saw but one track. While camped 

 on the head of Grog Brook, New Brunswick, I trailed one up 

 one day, but the red squirrels, which seemed that day unusually 

 noisy, warned it in time and I only caught a glimpse of it as it 



