Forest life in Acadie : Sketches of sport and natural history in the lower provinces of the Canadian dominion . l ruminants, though I once saw alower jaw containing nine perfect incisors. The crownof the molar is deeply cleft, and the edges of the enamelsurrounding the cutting surfaces very sharp and hard asadamant—beautifully adapted to reduce the coarsesapless branches on which it is sometimes compelled tosubsist in winter, when accumulated snows shut it outfrom seeking more favourable feeding grounds. I haveoften heard it asserted by Indian hunters that a largestone is to be found in the st
Forest life in Acadie : Sketches of sport and natural history in the lower provinces of the Canadian dominion . l ruminants, though I once saw alower jaw containing nine perfect incisors. The crownof the molar is deeply cleft, and the edges of the enamelsurrounding the cutting surfaces very sharp and hard asadamant—beautifully adapted to reduce the coarsesapless branches on which it is sometimes compelled tosubsist in winter, when accumulated snows shut it outfrom seeking more favourable feeding grounds. I haveoften heard it asserted by Indian hunters that a largestone is to be found in the stomach of every , of course, is a fable ; but a few years since I wasgiven a calculus from a mooses stomach which I hadsawn in two. The concentric rinsfs were well defined,and were composed of radiating crystals like needles. Thenucleus was plainly a portion of a broken molar toothwhich the animal had swallowed. A short time after-wards I obtained another bezoar taken from a rings were fewer in number than in the precedingcase, but the nucleus was a very neaily perfect and ^5 OQ 6 13 a 03O o I THE ALCINE DEER OF THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS, 73 The young bull moose grows his first horn (ca littledag), of a cylindrical form, in his second summer, ,when one year old. Both these and the next yearsgrowth, wliich are bifurcate, remain on the head through-out the Tvdnter till April or ]\Iay. The palmate horns ofsucceeding years are dropped earlier, in January orFebruary—a new growth commencing in April. Thefull development of the horn appears to be attainedwhen the animal is in its seventh year.* As a means of judging age, no dependence is to beplaced on the number of the tines, but more upon thecolour and perfect appearance of the antler. In an oldmoose, past his prime, the horns have a bleached appear-ance, and the tines are not fully developed roundthe edge of the palm. It is my impression that whenmoose are much disturbed, and are not allowed to
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