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party dressing a female that had not yet dropped her calf. We 

 travelled across muskeg, and up a small stream about thirty-five 

 miles before reaching the mountains, reaching the foot of the range 

 on May 22d. Tracks of adult moose were everywhere plentiful 

 along this small stream, but no calf tracks were visible. On the 

 27th one of my party killed a cow and calf moose at the foot of 

 the mountain, and the calf looked to be about a week old. Re- 

 turning down this same stream the first week in June, calf tracks 

 were often observed. 



The females do not often attain a size equal to the largest males, 

 but I do not believe the difference in the size of the adults is as 

 great proportionately as in the caribou family. Throughout the 

 entire Mackenzie basin the Hudson Bay Company are extensive 

 purchasers of dressed moose, the weights of which are recorded, 

 and I was informed by one of the oldest employees now in their 

 service that the largest animal ever received by them was a fe- 

 male, received at Fort Norman, about 65° N., which weighed, 

 when dressed, 672 pounds. When alive this animal would prob- 

 ably have weighed 1,300 to 1,400 pounds. 



Two young are frequently produced at a birth, but very rarely 

 three, though the Indians claim to know of cases. The moose 

 may be considered to have but one enemy other than the native 

 — the wolf; but they do not suffer much from his attacks, except 

 in the deep, crusted snow of March. 



Woodland Caribou. — Caribou are abundant throughout the 

 headwaters of the Stickine and almost all its tributaries from the 

 south; also on the headwaters of the Tooga, to the north, and on 

 Level Mountain, between the Tooga and the Tahltan ; but very 

 few are found on the Tahltan. They are plentiful throughout the 

 Cassiar Mountains and the main ranges of the Rockies, as far to 

 the north and the south as I could trace them through the Indians, 

 a distance of about 200 miles each way. For the present I am 

 compelled to speak of them merely as woodland caribou, but I 

 fully believe them to be a new sub-species. Having consigned 

 specimens to the American Museum of Natural History, I await 

 with much interest Dr. Allen's report upon their identity. 



According to my observations these animals are as superior in 

 size to the woodland caribou as the woodland are to the barren 

 ground caribou. At no time of the year do they inhabit timbered 

 country, but range in the high mountains the greater part 



