
| 
| with white only. 
Nov, 23, 1907) 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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THE ADIRONDACK ANIMALS. 
Continued from page 818, 
As requested, the express companies have 
again recorded the actual weights of the larger 
deer shipped, and the record is practically as 
satisfactory as in former years. 
Each year brings its reports of white or al- 
bino deer killed in the Adirondacks. Few of 
these are wholly white, and most of them are 
deer which simply have a lighter colored coat 
than is usual. In some cases the coat is spotted 
Occasionally, however, a deer 
is killed whose coat is almost entirely white, 
| and such specimens are prized highly by the 
| fortunate hunters who secure them, and are al- 
most invariably mounted. During the past 
season several reports have been received of 
the killing of white deer, 
John Soper, of Malone, killed a yearling buck 
weighing ninety pounds near Ragged Mountain 
| that was all white except a few brown spots on 
| the head and back. 
This specimen was peculiar 
in that its under jaw was fully an inch shorter 
that the upper, and its feet were as large as 
| those of an old deer, showing it to be a freak 
in other respects as well as in color. It had no 
antlers. It was mounted for the Junction Hotel 
at Malone. 
E. C, Manzer, of Warrensburg, killed a buck 
near West Stony Creek which had a white coat 
containing a few brown and black spots. It had 
a good set of antlers, and was remarkable for 
/its short legs, short neck and stubby nose, which 
| resembled that 
of a sheep. It weighed 
This animal had been seen for some 
22 
pounds. 
| time in the Harrisburg country, and bore the 


| were released in June, Igor. 
marks of rifle bullets. It was also mounted for 
exhibition. 
The number of wild elk in the Adirondacks 
has been steadily increasing during the past 
five years, since the first catload of twenty-two 
Besides the natural 
increase, twenty-six elk—five bulls and twenty- 
one cows—have been liberated since the appear- 
ance of the last annual report. 
The large elk herds which formerly were 
concentrated in the vicinity of Little Tupper 
Lake, in Hamilton county, have split up into 
many small bands, some of which have been 
seen recently on Cold River in Essex county, 
in the Fulton Chain section of Herkimer county, 
and at many other points widely separated. 
Game Protector Ned Ball, of Old Forge, has 
traced the course of three elk from Forked 
Lake in northern Hamilton county, to a point 
south of Woodhull Lake, in Herkimer county, 
a distance of nearly 100 miles by the route fol- 
lowed, which will give an idea of the wide area 
over which the Adirondack elk are ranging. 
A conservative estimate of the present num- 
ber of elk in the Adirondacks would probably 
be 350. 
The Legislature last spring appropriated the 
sum of $2,149.73 for continuing the purchase of 
wild moose and their liberation in the Adiron- 
dacks. This was the lapsed (unexpended) bal- 
ance of the original moose appropriation of 
1901. The commissioners at present are nego- 
tiating for the purchase of ten of these animals. 
The restocking of the Adirondacks with 
moose never obtained a fair impetus, as but 

fifteen moose were purchased with the original 
appropriation in 1902 and 1903, and about half 
of these were bulls. Several of the cows were, 
}unfortunately, killed at the very outset of the 
}experiment, so that it received a serious check 
jalmost at its inception. 
jin the Adirondacks at present, but not a sufficient 
)}number to perpetuate the race without additions 
)to the stock. 
There are a few moose 
Game Protector Ball reports one 
from the vicinity of Beaver River, which Was 
seen some weeks ago. 
It is believed by friends of the project that 
no insurmountable difficulty confronts the plan 
to restore the moose, and that it is merely a 
question of liberating a sufficient number to 
offset the mishaps which are always likely to 
occur in the early stages of an enterprise of 
this, kind. It has been clearly demonstrated, in 
the case of the elk and beaver, that wild animals 
native to the region can be successfully rein- 
troduced in the Adirondacks, and as this section 

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