and the Maritime Provinces. 31 



" It is characterized among the other deer by a very broad, elongated 

 muzzle, which is covered with short hair except a small moist spot in front 

 of the nostrils. The neck, as you know, is rather short and thick and is 

 maned in both sexes, particularly the male, on which, in old specimens, 

 there hangs below the jaw or throat a thick tuft called the 'bell.' The 

 hair is thick and brittle, and the horns of the male are large and broadly 

 palmated. The immense size of the animal, its weight reaching twelve or 

 thirteen hundred pounds, and its height being sometimes six or six and a 

 half feet at the withers, its comparative scarcity, the speed and facility 

 with which it evades pursuit, and the ferocity, the vindictiveness with 

 which, when wounded, it often turns on its pursuer, render it the great 

 prize which ambitious hunters strive to obtain. 



" Moose hunting, although often followed through the greatest priva- 

 tions and by the exercise of endurance and patience of the highest order, 

 is generally conceded to be the grandest and most intensely exciting of all 

 eastern American sports, and no trophy is more highly valued by the 

 hunter than the head and antlers of this great deer. 



" The moose is irregularly distributed and is not what may be called 

 plentiful in any locality. In the New England States it is rarely found in 

 northern Vermont and New Hampshire, but in the upper portions of Maine * 

 it is fairly abundant, although it seems to prefer certain localities to others." 



" In New Brunswick the heavily-wooded country in the interior is still 

 plentifully supplied, particularly the region about the upper Restigouche 

 and Miramichi rivers and their tributaries, a correspondent of Forest and 

 Stream reporting that in a few weeks' outing last season in the neighbor- 

 hood of Moose, Renous and Deer lakes he saw seventeen moose, three 

 caribou and three deer, and ' jumped ' twenty-nine moose, starting seven 

 in less than half a day. 



" The interior of Nova Scotia, away from the settlements, is generally 



* I know of no better way of showing, if not its favorite haunts, at 

 least the localities which are most hunted by sportsmen than by quoting 

 the railroad returns of the numbers of moose that were shipped from the 

 various stations contiguous to the hunting grounds during the three months' 

 season of 1896. These shipments undoubtedly represent the majority of 

 the moose killed, although, of course, a number of others were consumed 

 in the woods or were otherwise disposed of. The stations on the Bangor 

 & Aroostook railroad, the new line which has opened up to the sports- 

 men a most magnificent region, together with the number of moose shipped 

 from them, are as follows : Fort Fairfield, 1 ; Patten, 7 ; Sherman, 3 ; Stacy- 

 ville, 6; Grindstone, 8 ; Millinockett, 2; Twin Dam, 4; Norcross, 13 ; 

 Schoodic, 3 ; Milo, 2 ; Ashland, 6 ; Masardis, 24 ; Greenville, 27 ; and from 

 other points on the line, 27 ; a total of 133. 



The shipment from stations on the Maine Central railroad were from 

 Farmington, 2 ; Oakland, 1 ; Enfield, 2 ; Lincoln, 1 ; Machias, 2. — E. A. S. 



