Index 



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Moose \^coniinued'\ — 

 Calves, 294, 298. 



Pet calf incident, 315. 

 Charging, 143, 314. 

 Color, 298. 

 Extinction possibilities, 6, 69-71, 



303. 304. 318-319. 

 Food, 307-309. 

 Habits, 304-318. 

 Hunting, 292, 319-325. 



Frozen skin anecdote, 325. 



Still-hunting, 80. 

 Measurement, rapid growth, 294- 



297. 

 Range, 5-6, 294, 301-304. 



Forest country, 291. 



Winter range, 305. 

 Species and characteristics, 292- 



301. 

 Swimming, 317-318. 

 Weight, 297. 

 Wolves, enemy of moose, 305- 



307. 319. 

 Mule-deer, or Rocky Mountain black- 

 tail — 



Breeding, 49-51. 



Description of, 9-10, 28-30. 



Enemies of, 43. 



Gait, 47, 77. 



Habits, variation in, 33-47. 



Horns, 9-10, 29-30. 



Hunting, 52-61. 



Migration, 37-38. 



Name, 28. 



Preservation, 31-33, 61-64. 



Range — rates of extermination, 



10, 30-35. 61-69. 99-100- 

 Wire fences, passing through, 



42-43- 



Young, 48-49. 

 Mule-deer of the Pacific coast — 



Antlers and horns, 219-220. 



Compared with Columbia black- 

 tail, 253-256. 



Description, 10, 197, 219-223. 



Mule-deer of the Pacific coast [con- 

 tinued'] — 



Destruction of grapevines, etc., 

 207-210. 



Food, 192-195. 



Gait, 198. 



Habits and movements, 212-216. 



Hunting, 175, 198-207, 210-219. 

 Brush — deer cover, 199-201, 



204-207. 

 Hounds, use of, 199, 201, 

 216-218. 



Lower Californian deer, 194, 195, 

 197, 226. 



Range, 192-197, 227. 



Senses, 202-204. 



Shrewdness, 205. 



Varieties, 195-197, 222. 



Venison, 223. 



Watering, 193-194. 



Weight, 195, 196. 

 "Mule-tailed deer" variety, 196, 

 222. 



Nahanna River country — moose 



ranges, 302-303, 316. 

 Names of deer, see Nomenclature. 

 Naturalist qualities of hunter, 26-27. 

 New England — 



Moose decrease, 69-71. 

 Whitetail range, 69-71. 

 Newfoundland, caribou, hunting, etc., 



268, 270, 271, 283. 

 New Hampshire, game preserves, 1 1, 



19. 

 New Mexico, pronghorn herds, 103. 

 Nomenclature of deer, 2-4. 

 Mule-deer, 28. 

 Virginia deer, 4. 

 Wapiti, 7. 

 WhitetaU, 9. 

 Northwest Territory, moose ranges, 



294. 

 Nova Scotia, caribou specimens, 

 268. 



