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sleep early Xfeet, while jmany pairs have been re- Cs Another /gam* animal /of Alaska 1* com* out of -7their winter .-;\u25a0 having a spread ,of " more goat. animal ,in the /spring, usually in April. When corded - than . the white mountain /This they A \u25a0ix feet. \u25a0'- -//-/,. .-?/ '-r/.-7- \u25a0Is most peculiar ,of American game the - salmon ; begin .to//ran / feed them, ' Various methods '.of >' hunting /moose" animals, and with the possible exception largely on and "on this account are employed •in Alaska. Of these still ; of/the musk jox its habits are the least have been called fish bears, or fish eat- hunting is most common! Calling /with/ known. ///'Despite/its; name/it is; not a ing bears, although A other bears have the birch bark horn, so .successfully? goat, nor is it;' an antelope, though the/same: habit.:? They eat a great va- \u25a0 riety however, practiced In . eastern Canada, 13 >not*/ having more in common with antelopes of other food,/ includ- -' \u25a0 greatly In? vogue, when properly than with the,true/goats. 7 At;present ing kelp and shellfish secured about th* but of along tide flats, executed Is effective. -/'Contrary to the its ': nearest relatives ? are 7 the . curious z mouths streams and A 7 berries, roots, ground ;, squir- custom In /the east the : imitation of the Asiatic serows and gorals and the well and, also / ; chamois, all belong rels •;\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 obtained on higher bull Is used most frequently, although known 'of;!which and mice evidence that bulls can/be; attracted by a group collectively termed goat ante- ground. ' the not In ? lopes. lives almost entirely ;at high ; The brown bears of Alaska will the call 4of> cow Is lacking.,./ /It rare or some Instances dogs 1/have been suc- : altitudes,-/ frequenting cliffs, rock /doubtless become very extinct Indian's; lazy walled canyons and summits of an even lat no very distant date. Such formid- cessfully// employed. ?. The animals, even though lying or more forbidding /naturei than those / able, carnivorous method of In wait/near trails not' to , human .beings, ponds known, to be frequented by moose traversed by|mountain sheep.:/;To; ap- inclined. attack are commonly regarded * a menace Is also practiced. v proach ? a/? mountain goat /successfully / /as Aa'-a:\u25a0\u25a0'.Arz 'Is more a feat of mountaineering than to the . safety of travelers, and there- t//Caribou/inhabit the treeless and semi-/ undeserving of protection.;* Al- treeless parts of Alaska from the Arctio of/crafty; hunting.' This is *partly be- fore the goat keeps -watch;only;over ready they have become scarce on Ko- ocean /to; the Pacific side the Alaska cause/ * formerly they were crossing/of ' the country; below; him, ;' so is *-: neces- diak island, where peninsula, iExcept In from ono Jlt» very abundant, and on the' Alaskan mountain ridge :to another,-they,7rarely: sary/ to get- aboveand to/get above a white goat is in most case* to reach peninsula, though still fairly numer- enter^theV timber and consequently are/ are > being a rate the skyline. ..-\u25a0•\u25a0\u25a0• ous, 7 they killed at - seldom * seen/ by travelers /on the ;main; greatly in . excess of '-..their [ in- river'highways.. widely -/Although- the/ greater part of. Alaska probably They scatter In crease. ./ *In heavy forests of south- summer and the fall herds, Is without small deer the ': southeastern . /the In collect In coast" region .or "panhandle" greatly east Alaska/ and :in the region of /is? they may hold their favored /In this /respect. % Only 7 one / va- Mount St.: Ellas riety Aoccurs, , however, the so called own longer. deer, 7 but one very / Black bears are fairly common Sitka //this is among abundant. It Is a variety of Columbia throughout all Alaska. They are * many blacktail, but smaller. 7 Like the black- the shyest 'of animals and . slip tall,/ the jmule * deer, /lt\ Is a "bounding away- without allowing themselves to deer and .In/,flight/ pursues ; a zigzag be seen. Thus many districts where 7 be course, alighting 7on -all four7 feet 7at fairly common they are supposed to once after each leap. ./Unlike'the white scarce. ;Belonging; with the /black bear tall,jit does not/ raise Its tall. or "flag" group Is the rare and Interesting glacier jwhen /running.* Aln size it:Is ; small, or- bear, 7 Inhabiting the southern slopes of dinary bucks weighing : less than 100 the St. Ellas ; range and * nearby 7 moun- pounds./H Previous to the enactment of tains, at least from Cross sound to the the Alaska game :law deer /were: killed vicinity of/Cape "St? Ellas. /This bear by hundreds, and even/thousands mere- is .supposed to live near the numerous ly for their/chides, which netted the glaciers ofithis region, but its ? habit* hunter a few cents a piece/ - are/practically, unknown and, so far as Alaska / without > a rival in respect reported, it has never been killed by a •to/ number and variety of/bears." No white man. Scarcely a:dozen specimens, fewer than 13 kinds live in the terri- mostly? Imperfect, are contained in the tory. Theses however,? belong /to /: only- museums AofAthe world. ? The glacier four general types, the brown bears, bear is similar ?In size and general I bear, differing the grizzlies, : the ;black . bears and the character to the black polar/bears? / "r; /r^,. X mainly^ in color, which is silvery gray : The brown/ bears are -the most nu- slightly mixed with black, 7the nose be- merous and; most T:important. - They are ing brown / and * the feet : blackish. / In of huge size, /being much larger than/ certain ; conditions of pelage the /color the/ grizzlies and; other bears except, i has t"a| somewhat slaty or bluish gray the -polar? bear and their relatives **\u25a0* of: effect, hence the name "blue bear," Kamchatka. Therefore the statement. which la sometimes applied to the ant- mal. •;'//"-:.? "' ':A- r /"' ".-\u25a0/* The well ,known polar bear, which Is no less common hear the northern coast of Alaska than elsewhere In similar latitudes,; completes the )list of Alaska's bears.; Owing:to the/remoteness of Its habitat/ It /is .7 seldom seen except by whaling or exploring parties. • Although the walrus -Is •-* not always wnsidered a game animal, a paragraph , amy be devoted' to It/*since Its Imposing tusks are often sought. by trophy vhunt- : ers iand ? since' it/ has been ; protected iby the Alaska game law. / The Paciflc wal- rus, except' for Its larger size, is In all general features and habits practically Identical/with the Atlantic animal. It Is now rare south of Bering strait, al- though formerly large numbers: came south ': each season /with: the ; pack / Ice. In comparatively ?: recent times, / also, several . good sized : colonies -of7 walrus lived / throughout the year about th* than 1.0(10 a year. If proper. care •Is season Is too shores %of - \u25a0'\u25a0 Bering Asea, especially? in long, that we should be- Bristol/bay,/but only the merest rem- provided. There are a few white foxes gin a month later and close a month nant of these is:IeftJ^SOSHB9BBiHfIBH on the Islands, but they are permitted earl in the spring; all of which sug- •?'.,-- Alaska's game birds *• are mostly to be " killed skins, are gests, regulations breeding water fowl, "'• the . same well because the that the may not be known/migratory/species/? worth very they right. which spend little and are a very far from all/or part of/the winter in/the United By William L. source of great danger to the blue "Few people know sea otter States. Therefore, while territory ~ that/the the BARTON W. EVERMANN, who fox. *; Xy^yAAy Is the most valuable fur bearing animal is \highly important as a' refuge for large game, scarcely " will " have direct .'charge' ,of "Heretofore the government has been in the world. ? Last year, I believe, the it is less/so as a able to keep, track of the number of total catch in/ shelter?for; our surviving water birds. Alaska's vast gam* resources, Alaska walr^S'^sklns./ Ducks, geese'and ; wading birds, furs shipped out of Alaska by freight When the; pelt/ of•an animal; is worth so re-. DR.under the supervision of Com- cently; abundant on our coasts and In-' from $250 i:-tOy: $800? going to or express, but there has been no way it? Is be land /waters, tare/ everywhere missioner George M. Bowers, gave sought for- most 'aslduously;/ and the ; diminish- to determine number shipped by 1 ing in numbers, more than spe- th* writer an interesting talk // on the seeking. for sea/otters: in Alaska/last, and mall. Now the post office department year »- by .the ' hundreds of Indians, cies is J threatened? with extinction in th* duties of th* new division. ' squawmen and the the near future." Under such circum- is co-operating with the department of /others;; resulted"- InA Innumerable, "When the fur seal service was trans- capture of/only 37. That Is significant stances S the / ponds of the commerce, and ;labor, with the-/ result of Alaska lonely; tun- ferred to the bureau of fisheries," said of the fact that the sea otter Is getting Interior/ and / the: that every one offering, a /package of ? pretty? scarce"? and needs protection, v So :flras/of; its northern coa-sts, in which Doctor Evermann, "it. became neces- many of these birds rear young,/ furs for shipment by mail is required one of /the '\u25a0 regulations fiestablishes • a their sary to reorganize the bureau to some closed " on ,'ithe become of the utmost importance. The- -by/the postmaster to fill out a blank- season sea otter from, birds extent- in' order to take care of{that .kly, 1920; and- we . arrive In the / north / early In the . provided" by the fisheries bureau—stat- now^uotll//November spring,'* in April or May, and, service. In the reorganization, V? have also established*c a closed"period f after the ing the number. and kind of * furs con- ', of five years 1 or beaver, fur *eal «ervlce, the / A: the which ils Alaska salmon tained In the .package, and to whom also getting 'scarce /in Alaska. / 7Inform service fur; bearing and the animals they are sent. The postmaster certi- matlon received from the various of Alaska were all placed together un- Canadian provinces shows 'that closed fies /to the accuracy of the - statement periods, therec have worked der the title of the Alaska fisheries r 'wonderfully, and the blank thus /filled* out Is for- well, ,In/Asslnlbola, Saskatchewantand' survey, with myself as regions? chief of the/ warded -to the bureau of at those y Then a closed *season 7 fisheries will7: be ~ HJLfic'.XXi. This/ was provided for by Washington.- way ;made/;each*^year// for all the In this the bureau minor; fur 7 bearing animals." the last congress, and the service was 7 / /? will get an accurate record of all furs Much has been /said:and written of organized on the first day of last July. shipped by mail, and this, together the fur seals of Alaska, but llttl* is '.- the of "The lease of North American with similar records it.has always been generally known the 7 many gam* :,animals in territory high -.upon 7 the pos- .very large, at they; Commercial company expired In the the other than the -will /set //a 'value often but times roam receiving of the shipment by express seal. Among - Alaska's;! game ":-, session of an/ /undespblled territory widely../ The Igreatfherds ,in the fall of spring of 1910, when the government animals 'J, /f and freight, will.make the/ record of are/ some of the largest; and finest In ; furnishing -*/ primitiveyhaunts / for "wild. the year perform a more or less regu- decided not to ? re-lease the Islands,: furs leaving Alaska complete. , ; the ; world, as: the giant moose/and/the" game. ; lar movement ;In the nature of a migra- \ : ;? limits «sad it is now operating them as today huge brown bears. The game of the The ;. game has also a very tion, and within certain their under "The law it/stands makes it' territory /of Alaska /