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man and painter of big-game subjects, while the 

 two gentlemen were engaged in a September 

 hunting expedition in Alaska some years ago.^ 

 And F. C. Selous tells of successful calling, of 

 which he was an auditor and spectator, by Charles 

 Sheldon and a half-breed guide in Yukon Territory 

 of Canada September 25, 1904. The moose 

 came within twenty-five yards, but was lost by 

 the misfire of a cartridge.^ 



Sportsmen and guides who have been much in 

 the moose ranges of Lower Canada and Maine 

 agree that the bull is easily deceived in the rutting 

 season by a skillful caller, and that it is the cow 

 which calls, the bull's voice being rarely heard, 

 except when, by a sort of grunt, he responds to a 

 cow's call — or its imitation/ 



The usual time for calling is the dusk of a still 

 moonlit September or October evening or morning, 

 and the preferred place is the edge of a broad barren. 

 Can imagination picture a stage setting more 

 beautiful in the eyes of one who loves the woods! 



' ' National Geographic Magazine, July, 1909. 



3 Recent Hunting Trips in British North America, pp. 227-232. Mr. 

 Selous said the reply of the bull when responding to a call seemed to 

 come from the throat, and reminded him "irresistibly of a human being 

 in the throes of sea-sickness." 



< An old writer describes moose calling among the Micmac Indians of 

 Acadia two hundred and fifty years ago, the voice of the female being 

 imitated. — Denys, uhi supra, vol. ii., p. 423. 



