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heard their roaring, and marvelled that the 

 sound could carry that distance, but no longer 

 felt any surprise at the shooting. 



Even larger than the grizzly is the immense 

 brown bear of Alaska and Kadiak Island, with 

 shaggy brown fur and large thick claws. Speci- 

 mens have been shot in prime condition weigh- 

 ing 1600 Ibs. This bear feeds on grass and 

 also on salmon, either putrid or caught alive. 



The black bear, which occurs throughout 

 Canada and as far south as Mexico, is a much 

 smaller animal, weighing at its best no more 

 than a third of the brown kind. It keeps out 

 of the way of human beings as much as 

 possible, though I have seen the recent marks 

 of its claws where it stood up to sharpen them 

 on the wall of a wooden shanty in constant 

 occupation by sportsmen. 



WOLVES 



Canada has two wolves, the great grey 

 wolf and the smaller coyote of the prairies. 



The so-called black and white wolves are 

 merely southern and northern varieties of the 

 grey kind, the timber wolf of the backwoods, 

 which ranges from the Great Slave Lake, in 

 the far north, down to the warmer climate of 

 Texas and Florida. 



The grey wolf stands over 30 inches at the 



