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like the caribou for the moss that ever grows upon the 

 tundra. 



Their rut begins in September, when their horns are out 

 of the velvet covering, and ends about October first. Dur- 

 ing the rutting season the bulls are very wary and cautious 

 and their scent phenomenal, but they are also extremely 

 curious and are easily hunted, coming to the call of a birch- 

 bark horn, or the scraping of a bone on a tree after the 

 manner of a rival moose scraping his horns. They are less 

 easily hunted by stalking, as during rutting season their 

 sense of hearing and smell is unusually keen and one who 

 attempts to stalk a moose matches wits with an animal 

 that is apt to demonstrate his instincts as superior to hun- 

 ter's craft. 



Except during rutting season moose renounce the society 

 of cows and live in solitude, except that a few bulls are 

 frequently found feeding together, after which their ways 

 usually diverge. In the country visited by the writer, moose 

 are prolific on the wooded benches on both sides of the St. 

 Clair River, in the Harris River Valley, the Wolverine Val- 

 ley, and along the timbered slopes of the mountains along 

 the Donjeck River. 



BEARS 



The grizzly bear, ursus horribilis, is found scattered over 

 the entire Yukon Territory, having its habitat far above 

 timber line among the mountains and, in the region visited 

 by the writer, particularly the mountains at the head of the 

 Slims, the Donjeck, St. Clair, the Count, and the Wolverine, 

 the grizzly is fairly prolific as bears go, though they are 

 never found anywhere in great numbers; numerous tracks, 



