AMERICAN BIG GAME 



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across. Unless we think of the moose in connection with 

 its wild and weird woods, we can hardly consider it beauti- 

 ful. Its color is tawny above and somewhat yellowish be- 

 low. It is still found in the wild woods of northern Maine 

 and Minnesota, in Canada, the Eocky Mountains, and on the 

 Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska. 



FIG. 58. MOOSE. 



71. Wolf and Bear. 



MATERIAL : Similar to that for deer ; children might see some of 

 these large animals in the circus. 



Wherever red deer, wapiti, and moose are found, you 

 may also come upon the wolf (Canis lupus) and upon the 

 black bear (Ursus americanus). Children frequently imagine 

 the beasts of prey to be very much larger than they really 



