78 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
stitute their favorite food is wonderful. Their pace is 
either a walk or trot, the usual bounding gait of other 
species being unknown to them. Even if a fallen tree in- 
terrupt their progress, instead of rising at it like a horse, 
they manage to clamber over in a most effective manner. 
Two methods of capturing moose .I have not alluded to 
—for why? They appear so antagonistic to all those feel. 
ings that should actuate the gentleman—viz., by snaring 
and trapping. The minutie of the modes of proceeding 
by which the unsuspicious game is induced to enter either 
of the above devices, I am certain would not be interesting 
to a sportsman. 
For many years it was a disputed point whether the 
moose-deer of America and the elk of Europe were the 
same species; but the most eminent of recent and present 
authorities agree that they are identical. Captain Hardy, 
of the Royal Artillery, who was stationed many years in 
Canada, and devoted much of his time to moose-hunting, 
as well as studying this animal’s habits, and who is also 
conversant with the European elk, emphatically asserts that 
there are not the smallest grounds for any diversity of 
opinion on the subject. Audubon, an authority on Amer- 
ican natural history second to none, refuses to give a de- 
cision, and justly so, for he was not conversant with the 
European animal. 
The following adventure occurred to me while sojourn- 
ing in the habitat of the moose: 
For some days my fly-rod had been indefatigably and 
most successfully at work, furnishing not only my own - 
table, but many of the neighboring families with trout, so 
that a change of programme was far from unacceptable. 
One morning as I was deliberating in which direction I 
would go, my host asked me if I should have any objection 
to accompany him to lift some traps he had not visited 
