1908.] 



MAMMALS. 



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patch on the face being of a dark creamy color. During the first half 

 of June we saw many tracks at our camp on Slave River 10 miles 

 below the mouth of the Peace, and on the islands in the river between 

 there and Smith Landing. A party of Indians whose camp we passed 

 on the lower Athabaska early in August had just killed a moose, and 



].' I( ;. ii. — Distribution of moose (Alecs americanus) in central Canada. The moose seems 

 to 1)0 extending its range northward in the region of Hudson Bay. 



during our ascent of the river a female was killed by the voyagers 

 on August IS near Brule Rapid. 



In the spring of 1903, while descending the Athabaska and Slave 

 rivers to Great Slave Lake, we saw tracks of moose occasionally, but 

 observed none of the animals. During their return trip in the fall, 

 however, my brother and Cary saw a young one on the Athabaska 

 above Athabaska Landing. In the lake country between Fort Rae 



