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color about the first of April, and by the end of the month most of them were 
brown. 
On July 25, 1911, half-grown young were numerous at Tanana. August 2 a 
female containing six large embryos was taken at Fairbanks. At the head of 
the North Fork of the Kuskokwim a female containing a number of formless 
embryos was taken May 3, 1912, and one with 3 embryos, each about 110 mm. in 
length, on May 15. May 29 a juvenile about one-third grown was seen. A female 
with 6 large embryos was taken June 24 on the Kuskokwim-Minchumina portage. 
Except during the breeding season, when they are stated to be strong in flavor, 
the hares are used a great deal for food, especially by natives and by prospectors. 
They are commonly taken in snares of picture wire set over the runways in the 
snow. The snares used by the Indians are attached to a spring-pole, but white 
men commonly attach the snare merely to a short stick, which is stuck in the 
snow. The natives sometimes organize a small drive, and then take the hares 
in snares or shoot them with a small rifle. 
Alces gigas Miller. Alaska Moose. — A few tracks were noted during August, 
1911, in the Tanana Valley near Fairbanks. In the neighborhood of Tanana 
moose have been entirely killed off, but a few still occur at the heads of the Cosna 
and Redlands (Chitanana) rivers. Along the North Fork of the Kuskokwim 
they are numerous down as far as the McKinley Fork, and are reported to be rarely 
found west to Big River. Tracks were found in white spruce-paper birch for- 
est, in lowland willows and alders on river-bars, in areas of nigger-heads, in black 
spruce forest, and in burned timber. In summer moose frequent the edges of 
lakes, and several were seen swimming in lakes and wading in rivers. July 4, 
1912, one was watched feeding on horsetails at the edge of a small lake on the 
North Fork of the Kuskokwim at the junction with the McKinley Fork. In 
winter they feed on the twigs of willow and birch. 
Rangifer stonei Allen. Stone Caribou. — A few caribou were reported to occur 
on the hills about fifty miles north of Tanana. Many old trails were noted in 
grass and sphagnum on the ridges of Mount Sischu and near Takotna in the sum- 
mer of 1912, but caribou are rare in those regions. In the early winter of 1911-12 
a band of about ten visited Mount Unsuzi at the head of the North Fork of the 
Kuskokwim, where tracks were noted in black spruce forest. In the region 
between Fairbanks and Circle caribou are reported to be abundant. 
Ovis dalli dalli Nelson. Dali Sheep. — Reported to occur on the northern slopes 
of the Alaska Range. 
University of Michigan, Ann Arhor, Mich. 
