. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ARCTIC TEKiX KNJOYIKG A RIDE diX A DEAD LIMB I-', IX THE CENTER OF SKIEAK : THE BIRDS ARE TO LEAVE WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED AT SIX and two others, equally big, were at the lick one morning on arrival, but could not be photographed from the water. All the others, with one exception, were cows or bulls ranging from one to five years of age. The exception noted was an enormous bull that came down wind on an unused runway to the rear of the blind just when I was eating lunch. He gave a loud grunt behind my back a
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. ARCTIC TEKiX KNJOYIKG A RIDE diX A DEAD LIMB I-', IX THE CENTER OF SKIEAK : THE BIRDS ARE TO LEAVE WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED AT SIX and two others, equally big, were at the lick one morning on arrival, but could not be photographed from the water. All the others, with one exception, were cows or bulls ranging from one to five years of age. The exception noted was an enormous bull that came down wind on an unused runway to the rear of the blind just when I was eating lunch. He gave a loud grunt behind my back and I nearly choked with surprise. In the excitement he got away, leaving only a mental picture of a frightened moose and a flustered photographer. I saw no calves and only their tracks in some of the heavily forested valleys about the lake. Occasionally large moose could be seen a mile or two away feed- ing in and out of the willows near the summit of the mountains. The light-brown color, noticeable the first day, was repeated in the case of all the other moose, the shade approaching very closely that of the great brown bear of the inland. Judging from the .shreds of the spring-shed hair and that of sev- eral abandoned hides near hunting camps, the winter pelage nnist be a light liiift'-brown in color. In the extreme sijutliern range most moose are dark- colored in summer, looking almost black at a distance, with a somewhat lighter shading on the legs and flanks. Some of the pelts examined show that all the hair of the narrow abdominal strip was glossy black, while that of the side and back had buii'-brown tips, with a pure wdiite body to the root, so that, with the darker tips clipped, the animal would appear to be white from the ven- tral strip upwards. The present classification of the giant moose depends chiefly upon skull charac- ters and colors of the male, as shown by j\Ir. G. S. ]\Iiller, Jr., in the original de- scription of the species, but it will doubt- less prove t
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