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NATURAL HISTORY. 



When day approaches, they retrace their steps a short distance, and then 

 take a leap from the path, to hide for the day in some clump of bushes. 

 Besides his trail on the ground, the hunter follows the marks of his teeth 

 upon the trees, knowing that he gnaws only on the side which he first 

 approached. Again, another way of hunting them is by imitating the low- 



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Fie;. 504. — Moose (Aires malchis). 



ing of the male by modifying the voice with a trumpet of birch bark. As 

 the male hears the challenge, he draws near, making his reply, and then 

 when within a certain distance, this call must be stopped, and if one then 

 makes a noise with the paddle to imitate a moose splashing in the water, 

 the game is pretty sure to show himself. Still, the hunt is not over ; for a 

 wounded moose, or a male in the rutting season, is not afraid of man, but 

 often forces the hunters to take to the trees. 



