Moosé 
cealment. ... The fawns are usually born in May, their number 
being generally two, although triplets have been recorded. They 
are more fully spotted than those of the mule deer, the spots 
themselves being more sharply defined and arranged in more 
definite longitudinal lines. In these respects the fawns are more 
like those of the Virginian deer.” 
Varieties of Black-tailed Deer 
1. Black-tailed Deer. Odocotleus columbianus (Richardson). 
Description and range as above. 
2. Sithan Black-tailed Deer. O. columbianus stthensts Merriam. 
Similar, but ears shorter, and basal part of tail above fulvous 
like the back. 
Range. Southern Alaska. 
3. Californian Black-tailed Deer. O. columbianus scaphiotus 
Merriam. Colours paler and ears longer. 
Range. Northern California. 
Moose 
Alces americanus Jardine 
Length. 9 feet. Height at shoulder, 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet 6 
inches. Length of antler, 41 to 44 inches. 
Description. A crest of stiff erect hairs on the neck, much elon- 
gated and forming a hump on the shoulders, nose large, the 
upper lip protruding well over the lower, ears large, tail 
very short, legs long, a pendent mass of hair on the throat 
called the ‘‘ bell.” Colour blackish-brown above, grizzled with 
gray on the rump, shoulders and sides of the neck, under 
parts black, inside of legs and their entire lower portions 
quite gray, feet black, ears gray. Antlers broadly palmate, 
solid portion nearly two feet at the widest point, several tines 
project forward and the outer edge of the flat portion is 
fringed by an irregular series of points. 
xange. Eastern British America, Maine, Minnesota and Montana 
and formerly northern New York. Replaced in Alaska by 
the Alaskan moose (Alces gigas Miller), a still larger beast, 
and the largest known member of the deer tribe. 
The moose seems like some old pre-historic creature that has 
lingered on into the present age, lonely and out of place, as if, 
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