The Moose 297 



ment ; but a large bull moose is a heavy animal, 

 and does not stand on stretched legs or on the 

 tips of his long toes ; so, too, the top of his shoul- 

 ders is at the surface of the skin and not at the 

 end of his long mane. 



I have collected many interesting statistics 

 during my travels through the great country 

 of the moose, bearing upon their size, weight, 

 measurements of hoofs, joints, and many parts 

 of the animal's anatomy. The weight of the 

 four quarters of adult moose as they are sledded 

 in to the Hudson's Bay Company posts in winter, 

 when they are generally poor, ranges from 

 350 to 500 pounds. This would refer to females 

 as well as to males. I have taken from adult 

 males very poor hams which weighed as high as 

 1 10 pounds, and I know of a fat bull killed near 

 Fort Norman on the Mackenzie whose four 

 quarters weighed 700 pounds. 



When on the Liard River in the winter of 

 1 897-1 898, an Indian brought in a skin from a bull 

 moose, just as he would take it, minus the skin 

 from head and legs. It weighed goj pounds, 

 after fleshing, 72 pounds, after hair was removed, 

 51^ pounds, made into rawhide, 9^ pounds, into 

 dressed skin, 5^ pounds. This was not a large 

 pelt. Many of the hides complete as the natural- 

 ists will take them, weigh, when green, close to 

 150 pounds. 



