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of these places are very remote and little known to hunters. 

 The killing of walrus south of the Bering Straits is also 

 prohibited. This means a special expedition into the Arctic 

 regions to obtain even one specimen of this species. Further- 

 more, only one moose is allowed to be exported by each 

 sportsman from the Kenai Peninsula, although by the 

 wording of the Act any person may still kill two moose in 

 any part of x^laska. Needless to remark, every sportsman or 

 hunter in search of a good head, if on the Kenai Peninsula, 

 exercises his right to kill two moose, and if he is unable to 

 export the second head, the better one is taken out, and the 

 other left to rot, or given to any person in the country who 

 cares to accept it. 



Assuming, then, that a sportsman intends to visit the 

 Kenai Peninsula for shooting in the autumn, and possibly 

 some other place for bears in the spring, the most he can hope 

 to obtain of the protected game, after spending the whole 

 season shooting, is comprised in the following list : — Four 

 brown bears, four mountain sheep [Ovis daili), and one 

 moose ; or if he desire to get caribou, then he can substitute 

 four caribou in the place of one moose, but to obtain both the 

 latter in one season under the present local restrictions will 

 be a hard matter. I do not wish to insinuate that either of 

 the above bags should be despised, but to say the least of it, 

 any one who goes out to Alaska and strictly adheres to the 

 letter of the present laws will be somewhat disappointed if 

 he views some of the collections made by the few pioneer 

 sportsmen in Alaska who were fortunate enough to visit the 

 country before this new Act was in force. Being myself 

 numbered amongst these privileged ones, I can sympathise 

 with any enterprising sportsmen who may venture to this 

 far-off land under these altered conditions, since it is no 



