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were given. The drowning was said to be for the purpose of ren- 
dering the patient susceptible to the effects of the medicine, and 
also to having the medicine administered. The man is said to be 
living to-day, and bearing the marks of his own teeth where he had 
bitten himself in his frenzy. My informant said he had tried half 
drowning a rabid dog in the sea and then administering a remedy 
which proved successful. 
While at Agua Caliente news was brought that a child a few miles 
away had been attacked in the evening and bitten on the face by a 
rabid wild cat, but no opportunity was had to investigate this case, 
or any from skunk bite. 
The usual manner of attacking by the “ zorillo’’ is to creep up 
to sleeping persons and bite them on any exposed flesh, usually the 
face. 
The little striped skunk of Texas is also said to be subject to 
rabies, and some seemingly authentic cases of death from biting 
have been reported. 
During two months sojourn at the ‘‘cape region’’ this year I did 
not see or smell any of these animals, and could not obtain speci- 
mens even by offering a reward, hence I conclude that they were 
not common at any place where I have been, and consider that a 
man could travel in the region fora long time and would be exposed 
to more dangers from other causes than from the rabies of “ el 
zorillo.”’ 
A NEW COTTONWOOD FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
PoPULUS MONTICOLA.—A tree sometimes 1 m. in diameter and 
25 m. high with ascending branches; bark rough, ash colored; new 
growth densely tomentose: leaves round-ovate, with a short point, 
variably sinuate-crenate or dentate, silky-pubescent upon both sides 
especially upon the veins, 3-7 cm. long, often broader, on terete 
white-tomentose, petioles nearly of the same length; stipules linear: 
bud scales white-silky: fruiting aments, 2-3 cm.’ long: capsules 
ovate, densely white silky-tomentose, 2-3 valved; styles usually 
two, united at base, each with two narrow divisions: disk small, 
nearly flat: scales minutely sinuate-dentate, nearly glabrous. _ 
The tree inhabits the high mountains of the interior of the Cape 
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