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a fair start there is no reason why we may not hope for as much 

 success as has been had with the Wapiti." 



No wild animal roams at random. All have a certain home 

 range that they conside.r home. Some have two of these, one ^^^^^^ 

 for summer, the other for winter, and these are called migratory 

 animals. The Moose has but one home, and that it keeps to 

 the year round. As a general rule the extent of an animal's 

 range corresponds somewhat with its size. A Deer range is 

 larger than that of a Rabbit because its wants are greater. 

 Flesh-eaters are of course on a different basis. The Moose 

 appears to be the widest ranger of the non-migratory ruminants. 



The Carberry Swamp was the home of a small band of 

 Moose that never left its limits at any time, so far as I could 

 learn, though it was but three miles wide by ten long. The 

 Moose that inhabit the east slopes of the Teton Mountains in 

 Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, are known to continue all year in a 

 narrow belt about three miles by ten on the east of Jackson's 

 Lake. In the Bitterroot Mountains a few individuals live in the 

 narrow valleys on the west slope of the mountain, and though 

 these valleys are rarely over half a mile wide, the Moose seem 

 content to dwell permanently in a part of them that is not more 

 than two or three miles long. 



While the Wolf and Fox may greatly extend their home 

 range in winter time, the Moose and some others seem to restrict 

 themselves to a smaller locality then than in summer, no 

 doubt on account of the difficulty of travelling in the snow. 



In the winter, according to all testimony, the Moose is 

 satisfied with so small a range that it is called the winter yard. 

 This may be less even than 50 acres. Indeed, George H. Mea- 

 sham writes me from Manitoba that he has known a family of 

 4 Moose to pass all winter within a radius of 300 feet. Having 

 found a suitable place to yard, a family will stay there until the 

 snow is gone, the food fails, or they are driven out by hunters. 

 I should think that ordinarily a Moose, especially a cow, passes 

 its life within 10 miles of the spot where it was born. 



Although the species has no orderly migration, so far as 



