AMERICAN RANGE OF THE MOOSE 6i 



tions with respect to feed, in the season when the 

 horns are growing/^ and it is probable that a New 

 Brunswick moose transferred to Alaska, or an 

 Alaska moose carried to New Brunswick, would, 

 within a year or two after his migration, be in- 

 distinguishable from the other moose about him. 



Attention has been called by Madison Grant to a 

 secondary palmation frequently noticeable in the 

 antlers of Alaska moose. The brow prongs of 

 fully developed antlers are usually connected by a 

 web at right angles to the main palmation, while in 

 the case of eastern moose such palmation between 

 the brow prongs is much less noticeable. But 

 this peculiarity in the antlers is not cited to sup- 

 port the claim that the Alaska moose is of a distinct 

 species; furthermore, eastern moose not infre- 

 quently have an unmistakable secondary palmation 

 of the same sort. 



Zoologists, in their disagreement on the general 

 subject of subdivision into species, are arrayed in 

 two camps. The advocate of a multiplicity of 

 species contemptuously refers to the "lumper'' 

 who would include several of these minor sub- 



"Apparently the Alaskan moose find in summer an abundant 

 supply of some food which is particularly rich in horn-producing prop- 

 erties, and the enormous and freaky antlers are the result." — Hornaday, 

 American Natural History (N. Y., 1914), vol. ii., p. 119. 



23 Seventh Report N. Y. State Forest, Fish, and Game Commission, 1901, 

 p. 232. 



