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But the accounts of Governor Head's moose and Lord Hill's 

 horses seem to have become blended later in a single story, one 

 version of which is found in a newspaper clipping dated in 

 1 89 1. The writer of the paragraph in question told how 

 Governor Head's tame moose was matched to race on the ice 

 from Fredericton to St. John against "any team of horses in 

 the stud of Lord Hill of the 52d Regiment." The moose, 

 according to this story, covered eighty-four miles in seven hours, 

 and won the purse. In this account, as in that printed in 

 1825, one horse in the losing team died of exhaustion before 

 completing the prescribed distance. Such details were added 

 later to this story as the imagination of narrators could supply, 

 the moose himself, in the final version, losing his life at the 

 end of his day's work. 



Professor Ganong is doubtless justified in his conclusion that 

 the account of the moose's long journey on the ice is without 

 basis of fact, the story being a distorted survival of the account 

 of the race in which Lord Hill's horses took part in 1825. 



K. 



AREA REQUIRED FOR MAINTENANCE OF MOOSE 

 (See page 87.) 



Henry J. Elwes, F. R. S., the English sportsman and 

 naturalist, leased hunting privileges on many farms in Norway, 

 aggregating thousands of acres of the best elk country, and 

 hunted there through September in six different years. A 

 valuable paper on ''The Habits and Present Condition of the 

 Elk in Norway," written by him, is published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society, 1903, vol. i., pp. 133-15 1. In 

 this paper, at page 138, he discusses the amount of feeding- 

 ground required to maintain elk, or moose. 



**From its great size and the nature of its food," he writes, 

 *'the elk requires a much larger extent of feeding-ground than 



