. Birds and nature . is thetwigs and bark of willows and birches,which it rides down to reach the tops,lichens and mosses and. the aquatic plantsof summer. In winter the Moose herd togetherin the snow, forming great tramped-downplaces called moose yards by hunters. Insummer comes the rutting season, inwhich the great males shake their antlersand attack any animal that comes theirway. With summer comes mosquitoesalso, and these pester the Moose to suchan extent that they are galled to a greaterfury. So it is that the Moose is a mostdangerous animal in the time when theground is clear, the swamp
. Birds and nature . is thetwigs and bark of willows and birches,which it rides down to reach the tops,lichens and mosses and. the aquatic plantsof summer. In winter the Moose herd togetherin the snow, forming great tramped-downplaces called moose yards by hunters. Insummer comes the rutting season, inwhich the great males shake their antlersand attack any animal that comes theirway. With summer comes mosquitoesalso, and these pester the Moose to suchan extent that they are galled to a greaterfury. So it is that the Moose is a mostdangerous animal in the time when theground is clear, the swamps full of mos-quitoes and his horns new-stripped of vel-vet for the fray. When the snow lies so deep that hecannot travel even with his long legs, theenemies of the Moose have him at a dis-advantage, and often the yards are at-tacked by wolves or bears or, worse yet,by agile men on snowshoes. Killing inthe snow is not recognized as legitimatesport, and is resorted to only by skinhunters or men lacking in the higher f. ALASKAN MOOSE.(Alces gigas). LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF iLUNU!§UEBANA ideals of sportsmen. The ordinary meth-od of hunting deer in the summer is byimitating the rutting cry of the male, thereply of the cow and the defiant challengeof the male again, followed by the thrash-ingandscraping of the trees and brancheswhere the hunter lies concealed. Thesecries are produced by blowing through abirchbark horn, and on account of theblind fury of the rutting males they areoften very successful in bringing them totheir death. The Indians and half-breeds of the farNorth stalk the wary Moose where hebeds himself down after a night of brows-ing, but so acute is his hearing and senseof smell and so great his cunning thatonly the trained woodsman can hope forsuccess. Leaving his feed-trail abruptly,the Moose moves off to one side clown thewind so that any one trailing him willbe surely scented, and there beds himselfdown for the day. The Indian followsthe well-defined trail of the Mo
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