APPENDIX 



369 



moose — four young bulls and six young cows — were liberated 

 in the Fiordland National Park early in 19 10. "Arrangements 

 are being made," he writes, "for the Government Conservator 

 of Fish and Game to visit the locality during the ensuing 

 summer with a view to ascertaining the present condition of the 

 herd." 



There would seem to be little occasion to apprehend that these 

 moose have succumbed after reaching their new forest range. 

 Having survived in good condition a railway journey of several 

 hundred miles, followed by ocean voyages across tropical seas 

 a distance equal in the aggregate to more than a third of the 

 circumference of the earth, it is not at all likely that they 

 have all perished sine prole, as the genealogists say. 



Capt. Donne writes that a large consignment of wapiti and 

 Virginia and blacktail deer, together with a mixed assortment 

 of American geese and ducks, were sent from the United States 

 to New Zealand in 1905, and that these have become fully 

 acclimatized and are thriving in their new environment. The 

 moose released in Newfoundland some years ago were sup- 

 posed for a long time to have perished, but they were living 

 contentedly in retirement all the while, and increasing con- 

 stantly in numbers. Dusky Sound is near the southern ex- 

 tremity of the South Island of New Zealand, about as far 

 from the Equator as Nova Scotia and southern New Bruns- 

 wick, and the Canadian moose released there will probably 

 in due season give a good account of themselves. The fact 

 that one moose lived for twelve or fourteen years in that 

 region is evidence that differences in climate and vegetation will 

 offer no obstacles to the success of the experiment. 



