110 HOOFED ANIMALS 



In the autumn months the northeastern Moose hunter 

 sometimes makes a horn of birch bark, conceals himself at 

 nightfall beside a pond and imitates the call of the cow Moose 

 until a bull is actually attracted within shooting distance. 

 The cry of this animal is a prolonged, resonant bawl, ending 

 in three or four hoarse grunts. 



The map on page 113 shows that the Moose is yet 

 found in northern Maine, New Brunswick, Canada, Mani- 

 toba, northern Minnesota, northwestern Wyoming, Idaho, 

 British Columbia, Alberta, Athabasca, Yukon and Alaska. 

 It shows only localities known to have been inhabited recently. 

 In none of these, however, are Moose so abundant as in 

 Alaska, around Cook Inlet. The southern limit of the Moose 

 in North America is the head of Green River, Wyoming, 

 latitude 43°, longitude 110° W., corresponding to the latitude 

 of Albany, New York. 



Below Alaska the favorite hunting-grounds for Moose 

 are Maine, New Brunswick, the upper Ottawa River country 

 of Canada and northwestern Manitoba. In view of the 

 great number of hunters — estimated at ten thousand — who 

 annually hunt and fish in Maine, of whom a large proportion 

 hold licenses that permit the killing of one bull, the per- 

 sistence of the Moose in Maine is really wonderful. At the 

 close of the past century the number of Moose transported 

 by the railways of Maine w r as as follows: 



1894 : . 45 



1895 112 



1896 133 



1897 139 



1898 202 



