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nrroup of prongH projc'cting forwurtls, of a dark reddish 

 brown. 



At this Hrasoii the l)ulls fi«^ht (h'spcratcly. IJuckod 

 by tho immonmj and (;oinpa<tt neck, the colliHion of tho 

 an tiers of two large nvalw is heard on a still autumnal 

 night, like the report of a gun. If the season is young, 

 tlu.' palm of the horn is ofti'U pierced by the tines of tho 

 adversary, and I have picked up broken fragments of 

 tincH where a fi; t has occturred. Though at other 

 seasons they rarely utter a sound, where moose are plen- 

 tiful they m.'iy be heard all dny and night. The cows 

 utter ii ])n»l()nged and strangely-wild call, which is imi- 

 tated by the Indian hunter through a trumpet of rolled- 

 u]) l)ir('h-biirk to allure the male. The bull emits several 

 sounds. Travelling through the woods in quest of a 

 mate, he is constantly " talking," ns the Indians say, 

 giving out a suppressed guttural scauid—tpioh ! quoh ! 

 — which becomes much sharper and more like a bcHow 

 when he hears a distant cow. Sometimes he bellows in 

 rapid succession ; but when approaching the neighbour- 

 hood of the forest where he has heard the call of the cow 

 moose, and for which he makes a bee line at first, he 

 becomes much more cautious, speaking more slowly, con- 

 stantly stopping to listen, and often finally making a long 

 noiseless detour of the neighbourhood, so as to come up 

 from the windward, by which means he can readily 

 detect the presence of lurking danger These latter 

 cautious manoeuvres on the part f)f the moose are, how- 

 ever, more frequently exercised in districts where they 

 are much hunted ; in their less accessible retreats the old 

 bulls will often rush up to the spou without hesitation. 

 The suspicious and angry bull will often go into a thick 



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