mens of mammals whicli had been collected vrove lost or much injured 

 l>y neo-leot on the part of their Indian and Eskimo collectors, or 

 from various causes beyond careful control. The nomenclature of 

 the following" list has })een carefully re\ised by the natui'alists of the 

 L'. S. National Museum. 



UNGULATA. 



MOOSE. 



Aires amerirnnus (Clinton). 



This valuable food animal used to be very luimerous on the Peace 

 River, and. indeed, thrcniohout tlie forest reg-ion of the northern por- 

 tion of the •• (xreat Mackenzie Basin:** but for the last twenty years 

 it has l)een nuich less abundant, and, indeed, remarkably scarce in 

 many parts, esj^ecially along- the Athabasca. Peace. Liard. and other 

 rivers, and th<^ larger lakes of the North. As moose have since been 

 found more or less plentiful in the eastern, westei'n. and southern sec- 

 tions of territory where for many years previously they were rather 

 rare, or conspicuous by their absence, it is now supposed by some 

 o])ser\ing natives and others that considerable^ numbers of tluMU nuist 

 have migrated southward, particularly during the remarkably mild 

 winter of ISTT-Ts. Be that as it may. it has been noticed tiiat at 

 intervals, and for several years at a time, this animal has l)een rather 

 scarce in various sections where it liad formerly been fairly al)undant. 

 It is easily scared, and no doul)t uuich hunting ultimate!}' succeeds in 

 driving it away to distant and less accessible retreats. Previous to 

 the establishment of Fort Anderson, in 1861, moose were frequently 

 seen ])v us on our annual winter trade trips from Fort Good Hope to 

 (the Eskimos of) Liverpool Bay. feeding along the high sloping- 

 banks of the Anderson River, but they soon after diminishetl in num- 

 bers, and had already become somewhat difficult to discover when the 

 post was abandoned, in IStUi. They are, however, to be found sparsely 

 there to the very edge of the wooded country, especially in sheltered 

 river valleys. Traces were oliserved by us near the Wilmot Horton 

 River in the Barren (irounds. in al)out latitude <!lt north and longi- 

 tude 126^ 30' west. I may also mention that on my way back from a 

 visit made to Anderson River in July, 1860, I came across and trav- 

 eled through a veritable moose preserve of some extent, which lay 

 between the usual hunting grounds of the Loucheux of Peel River and 

 the Hare Indians of Fort Good Hope. Several moose were seen and 

 one shot, while traces of them were very numerous. It was also the 

 resort of many black bears and woodland caribou. Again, for nearh" 

 a decade subsequent to 1865 (in that year Fort Nelson, which with all 

 its inmates had been utterly destroyed l)y the Indians in 1813, was 

 reestablished near its former site on the eastern branih of the Liard 



