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I'hoto by C.eoigc bhuas, jid 
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE COW MOOSE THAT EDUCATED HERSELE 
"I went a little closer, when she turned toward me, and again the camera recorded the scene" 
(see page 447) 
impressively corroborated by the fine col- 
lection of moose horns, found along the 
river bottom in willow thickets, where 
the absence of pine forests and the 
annual overflow each contributed to the 
scarcity of rodent life. These horns 
were later presented to the Biological 
Survey and constitute its only collection 
of the mountain type of this animal. 
During the several weeks spent in 
studying and photographing moose near 
Skilak Lake, the network of runways 
throughout the poplar and birch thickets 
showed very plainly that this was one of 
the great winter feeding: ranees of these 
animals, and that a systematic search 
would doubtless reveal many fine antlers. 
In this we were successful from the 
start, and nearly every afternoon, on 
taking the canoe for camp, one or two 
big or oddly shaped horns were a part 
of our cargo. And if the camera failed 
in its quest on such occasions, here were 
the discarded crowns of the giant moose, 
many of them worthy of portraiture and 
many of permanent preservation. 
By carefully noting the course of our 
rambles, in less than a week a square 
mile was pretty well covered and brought 
to view 26 nearly perfect antlers, aside 
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