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 

 columhianus) 



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 India,ns. 



MOOSE 



(plate ii) 



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 'Torignal," may be found wherever the 

 sohtude 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 



