294 Deer and Antelope of North America 



have no data, that we must await definite knowl- 

 edge. In the Cassiar Mountains and on the 

 Upper Liard River in northwest British Colum- 

 bia, and again in the country around the head 

 waters of the McMillan, Stewart, and Peel rivers, 

 Northwest Territory, are the two ideal moose 

 ranges of America. From neither have we a 

 single specimen to give us positive knowledge of 

 the character of the local moose. Nor has suffi- 

 cient knowledge been obtained to warrant a de- 

 scription. 



To the north of the Porcupine and around the 

 head waters of the Colville rivers in Alaska is yet 

 another large moose range from which we have 

 no real facts to rely upon. We have in museum 

 collections a few specimens from southern Can- 

 ada and Maine and again from the Kenai Penin- 

 sula in western Alaska, and these persuade us that 

 the animals of the Kenai are not only larger than 

 those in Canada and Maine, but they grow a much 

 larger head of antlers. The table of measurements 

 on the opposite page clearly shows the compara- 

 tive size of adult males. 



There is no other w r ild animal in America that 

 grows so rapidly as the moose. The calves are 

 small when very young, but they grow with 

 almost startling rapidity. A calf secured by me 

 on the Liard River, in the latter part of May, and 

 not more than one week old, measured : length, 



