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PREFACE 



here, together with the fruits of the author^s own 

 experience. 



PubHshed works in various languages in which 

 facts relating to the moose and his European 

 kinsman are to be found have been carefully 

 studied, and by free use of footnotes, citing authori- 

 ties in every branch of the subject, the reader 

 is given the bibUography of the moose and moose 

 hunting. Most quotations from ancient writers 

 are from the first editions, and the extracts con- 

 form closely in the use of capitals and punctuation 

 marks, as well as in spelling, to the originals. In 

 the extracts from old French writers the accents 

 to which modern readers are accustomed are in 

 many cases lacking. This lack is due to typo- 

 graphical carelessness in the ancient printing shops 

 and not to oversight on the part of the present 

 printers. 



American writers have generally ignored the elk 

 of the Old World, albeit the moose and the Euro- 

 pean elk are practically of the same species, and 

 indistinguishable. Most of the facts given in 

 these pages regarding the moose's European and 

 Asiatic congener have been hitherto unpublished 

 in English. 



The author wishes to acknowledge obligation 

 to Mr. Carl Rungius, who has kindly consented 



