46 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
The regulation prohibiting the sale of venison was a great 
help, and was almost universally approved of.... In 
the Lillooet district mule deer have greatly decreased, 
partly due to the bad winter, coyotes, etc., but more to the 
fact that the Chilcotin Indians are killing far too many, 
and it is impossible to stop them until the district is declared 
organized.” 
CoLUMBIAN BLACK-TAILED DEER (Odocoileus 
columbranus) 
This species bears a marked resemblance to the mule 
deer, but it is very much smaller. It has only moderately 
large ears and antlers with double-forked beams; but it is 
distinguished from the mule deer by its black tail. It un- 
dergoes the usual seasonal changes of coat colour common 
to the other species, and its characteristic home is in the 
moist forests of cedar, douglas fir, and spruce of the Pacific 
coast, where it is found as far north as Alaska. 
Many of these deer succumb to the deep snows of winter, 
which render them easy prey both to predatory animals 
and to the Indians. 
MOOSE 
(PLATE It) 
Throughout the wide breadth of Canada this magnificent 
game animal roams in our northern forests that constitute 
its natural home. From the forest-clad mountains of the 
Yukon and northern British Columbia to the ocean-girt 
woods of Nova Scotia this strange-looking animal, that 
first astonished the early French pioneers and evoked the 
significant name of ‘‘l’orignal,’”’ may be found wherever the 
solitude of trees or tree-lined lake or swamp provides the 
needed retreat. It is too well known to require descrip- 
tion, and its enormous size, usually surpassing that of a 
