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gan and northern Wisconsin, where moose were once 

 numerous. They are still abundant in northern Min- 

 nesota, where the country is extremely well suited to 

 their habits. Then there is a break, caused by the 

 great plains, until we reach the Rocky Mountains. 

 They are found along the mountains of western Mon- 

 tana and Idaho as far south as the northwest corner 

 of Wyoming, in the neighborhood of the Yellowstone 

 Park, the Tetons and the Wind River Mountains 

 being their southern limit in this section. 



" The moose of the Western mountains are relatively 

 small animals, with simple antlers, as compared with 

 the Ontario moose. Western moose have adapted 

 themselves to mountain-living, in striking contrast to 

 their brethren in the East, and are considered by the 

 Western hunters to be typical rock-animals, in places 

 nearly as much so as the big-horn. 



" North of the Canadian boundary we may start with 

 the curious fact that the great peninsula of Labrador, 

 which seems to be in every way a suitable locality for 

 moose, has always been devoid of them. There is no 

 record of their ever appearing east of the Saguenay 

 River, and this fact accounts for their absence from 

 Newfoundland, which received its faima from the 

 north by way of Labrador, and not from the west by 

 way of Cape Breton. Newfoundland is well adapted 

 for a moose-range, and a number of individuals have 

 been turned loose there without as yet any apparent 

 results. Systematic and persistent effort, however, in 

 this direction should be successful. 



" South of the St. Lawrence River, the peninsula of 

 Gasp6 was once a favorite range, but they were nearly 



