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for the photographs of the bison which were made at 

 the Blue Mountain game-preserve in New Hampshire. 

 Mr. Hornaday's new "American Natural History " 

 .contains much interesting matter concerning the hab- 

 its and present distribution of all the North American 

 game animals, with many capital pictures, and should 

 find a place beside the works of the other writers in 

 every sportsman's library. 



BOOK I 



THE DEER FAMILY — CERVIDiE 



There are six well-defined types of North American deer in the 

 Cervida, or deer family ; seven, if we consider the woodland caribou 

 and the barren-ground caribou as distinct forms. According to Mr. 

 Hornaday, a full count reveals no less than twenty-four recognized 

 species and sub-species. The list, of course, includes many animals 

 that are so much alike as to be one and the same from the sportsman's 

 point of view. The deer of the sportsmen are the moose, the elk, the 

 mule-deer, the Columbia black-tailed deer, the Virginia deer, and the 

 two caribou. 



All deer belong to the order Uiigulata, or hoofed animals. They 

 are divided into two classes— the deer with round horns and the deer 

 with fiat horns. 



I. The Moose. — Akes Aniericanus. 



The largest deer in the world ; from six to seven feet high at the 

 shoulder ; legs quite four feet long. Hair purplish gray, coarse, and 

 from three to six inches long. Head large, with broad, square-ended, 

 overhanging nose. Adult male has large flattened or palmated ant- 

 lers. Neck short; so short as to interfere with this animal's feeding 

 from the ground. He is evidently a browser. 



Range. — The moose is found from Maine to the Pacific coast and 

 Alaska; chiefly north of the United States. It frequents dense wood- 

 lands and swamps. In the West, the moose is found in the Yellow- 

 stone National Park and a few favored localities in northern Minnesota, 

 northwestern Wyoming, and Idaho. 



