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In his experience the tendency of an unwounded moose 

 to charge is practically negligible, though instances to 

 the contrary have occurred in his own knowledge. 

 A wounded or cornered bull will, however, generally 

 do his utmost to make things uncomfortable for his 

 pursuer. As an instance in point, my friend Mr. G. M. 

 Gathorne-Hardy, when hunting in Canada in 1907, 

 fired at a large bull moose which fell to the shot. As 

 the animal lay quite still he went towards it, but when 

 he was within a few yards it rose and made a most 

 determined charge, which he could hardly have avoided 

 had he not been able to turn the animal slightly with 

 a shot in the chest. 



Since the discovery of the variety of moose now 

 known as A Ices americanus gigas in the Kenai Peninsular 

 of Alaska it has become a recognised fact that these 

 enormous animals exceed in size the moose of Lower 

 Canada in about the same degree and proportion as 

 the moose of Lower Canada exceed the elk of Norway. 

 There is, doubtless, a more than fair sprinkling of 

 seventy-inch heads in Alaska, though few of these are 

 probably finer than the grand sixty-six and a half-inch 

 head shot by Mr. F. C. Selous upon a western spur of 

 the Rockies in 1904. But from recent statistics it 

 would appear that the last few years have been very 

 favourable in the matter of large heads in Eastern 

 Canada. Among individual specimens may be men- 

 tioned the sixty-eight inch head shot quite recently in 

 New Brunswick, and a very fine sixty-three and a half- 

 inch head which I saw at a taxidermist's in Ottawa. 



Mr. Price also shot a moose spreading over sixty- 

 three inches in 1908 near Rimouski. This head, which 

 I had the pleasure of examining, was a very fine one. 



