DISTRIBUTION OF MOOSE 



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From the foregoing figures, one can imagine the strength 

 necessary to enable an animal to carry such an unwieldy load 

 upon its head and to run at great speed for long distances 

 over the roughest kind of timbered country. 



Regarding the weight of adult Moose, very few exact 

 observations have been recorded, or otherwise made avail- 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE MOOSE IN NORTH AMERICA, IN 1903. 



able. A large Maine Moose killed by W. L. Miller, of Bangor, 

 weighed 1,123 pounds. A dressed carcass weighed by S. L. 

 Crosby showed a weight of 1,009 pounds. (Recreation Maga- 

 zine, IV, p. 89.) 



By the time a Moose calf is a year old, it has taken on 

 the colors of adult life, which consist of a mixture of blackish 

 brown on the head, neck and body, and yellowish gray on 

 the legs and under-parts. The hair and mane is long, coarse 

 and stiff, and lies more like a thatch of straw than genuine 



