162 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



THE 

 BELL 



Fig. 74 — Locked Moose antlers found in Algonkin Park, Ontario. 

 From a photograph by Thomas W. Gibson, Toronto. 



The locked horns, so common among Wapiti, Caribou, 

 Whitetail, and Blacktail Deer, are also found among Moose. 



One may wonder 

 how these big, flat 

 shovels can be- 

 come entangled, 

 and yet they do. 

 There are several 

 cases on record, 

 the most wonder- 

 ful being the ant- 

 lers of a pair of 

 giants fromAlaska. 

 These I saw in 

 Sheard's establish- 

 ment in Tacoma. The man who found them brought them 

 out at great cost. He thought he had a wonderful prize, yet 

 Sheard remarked: "I will give half as much more to any 

 one who will unlock these antlers 

 without using a saw. As they 

 stand they are an unwieldy curi- 

 osity which no man wishes to 

 buy, but separated each will make 

 a fine trophy." 



The second marked peculi- 

 arity in the bull Moose is the bell 

 on his throat. I have examined 

 many of these in the newly killed 

 specimens and in the living ani- 

 mal, and could find nothing in 

 them but a long dewlap of skin 

 with appropriate blood-vessels. 

 Sometimes it is round; some- 

 times flat, lying the long way; 

 sometimes flat the cross way of ^lo. 75-unusu^ai wi.^^.^i^^^^^^^^^ 



the animal's throat; sometimes 



exclusive 

 Manitoba. 



