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After the Buffalo the largest Canadian animal is the Moose, 

 Aires viacJilis, but although still fairly numerous in Northern 

 Manitoba, the advance of civilisation threatens its extirpation also. 

 Both inside and outside many houses in Winnipeg and other towns 

 of the Province, the enormous horns of this noble, and usually in- 

 offensive animal, are displayed as trophies of the chase. One of a 

 party of Winnipeg gentlemen, hunting in the White River district, 

 brought down a fine specimen weighing eleven hundred pounds. 

 The horns alone are very heavy, being solid, sometimes weighing as 

 much as eighty pounds. The Moose is " protected " during part of 

 the year, and at any time only a limited number are permitted to 

 be shot by an individual hunter. Moose venison is excellent, as I 

 can testify from experience, though my host up north would not 

 have offered the dish at that season to certain officials in the city. 

 It was with great regret that I had to decline, on account of ill- 

 health, the invitation of an old trapper to accompany him in his 

 buggy with my camera and his gun on a four days' Moose-hunt in 

 the Blue Mountains — a " bluff " of low hills some twenty miles 

 distant. 



In the northern districts of Manitoba the bear and wolf are by no 

 means uncommon. The former is the comparatively small and in- 

 offensive American Black Bear, Urs}(s iniiericaniis. During my visit 

 to the neighbourhood I was not so fortunate (or otherwise) as to 

 catch sight of a living one, though there were certainly some about, 

 for one was observed on the railway track within a mile of the town. 

 Later on, at Christmas time, when bear-steak is an advertised item 

 on the menu of the big hotels, I saw a fine specimen suspended by 

 its hind legs, at a butcher's stall in Winnipeg market place. This 

 still retained its splendid hide of jet-black hair. During my resi- 

 dence in the city, one was reported seen in the streets at night, and 

 on another occasion timber-wolves ventured as far as some of the 

 outlying houses in the suburbs. 



The Timber-wolf or Grey wolf. Cants occidentalis, is a formidable 

 beast, and is justly the creature most dreaded in the Province. At 

 Ethelbert it was reported to be an occasional visitor during the 

 winter months. I managed to secure a photograph of a couple of 

 these savage animals, as they trotted unceasingly around their 

 strongly wired enclosure in River Park, Winnipeg. 



Far commoner was the little Prairie wolf, or Coyote, Caiiis 

 latrans, which is but little larger than a fox, and whose howling so 

 frequently rends the midnight air and sets all the dogs in its vicinity 



