ANOTHER NEST (IF Til 



i'liotu Ijy Gcoi-gc Shiras, 3rd 



•:ee cormorants, id days older than the two tn The 

 preceding picture 



Unlike young gulls of a much younger age, they do not leave the nest when alarmed, but 

 groan and dis'iorge the contents of their stomachs. The cormorants in this picture disgorged 

 two quarts of fish from their pouches when the author appeared to photograph them. 



land, I made up my mind tliat this would 

 lie the place where the s])rncc blind 

 .should he erected and my first efforts 

 made in getting jiictures. 



OCR i-iKST sight oE The gi.\.mt ae.vska 



MOOSE, 



W hat liap()ened the following day is 

 <lescribed in extracts from my notebook : 

 ''July 2/. loir — Thcr.. oS-^n. 



"At <j a. m., in a bright sun and a dead 

 calm, we started to look for the moose 

 lick near the shore, and situated, accord- 

 ing t(.> directions, at the westerly base of 

 a long point, y.dtich I took to be the one 

 heading towards the lower end of Cari- 

 I)ou Island. In half an hour the canoe 

 entered the chatuiel between the island 

 and the point, and in a few mimites we 

 .s\\ung around towards the bite of the 



ba\'. Tom said that the previous winter 

 he had run 14 moose, princi]jally bulls, 

 oft the island while crossing the ice with 

 a dog-sled carrying pro^'isi(.lns h'om Cook 

 Inlet to a mining camp, but he did not 

 think we would see an)- bulls now, as 

 they were all hiding in the thickets well 

 up tcnvards the uKiuntain-tops. 



".V moment later he whis]iered, 'Gee! 

 there's a bull, and a big one, too.' What 

 I had taken for the brown soil on the 

 roots of an o\'erturned tree was a large 

 moose with antlers that e.xcited attention, 

 but no more so than the tawnv color of 

 its coat. I had never seen such horns 

 befeire nor such a color. The mciose was 

 solemnly watching the canoe, with the 

 greater ])ortion of the antlers shoved up 

 into the lower branches of a spruce. 



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