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but never got near enough to shoot it; it appears to be 

 about the size of a common cat, and resembles a badger in 

 colour. These marmots are extremely vigilant, always 

 placing a sentinel, who watches while the rest are feeding 

 or cutting provisions for the winter; on being disturbed, he 

 gives a shrill whistle, which is repeated from one to another 

 along the whole side of the mountain which they inhabit. 

 Their flesh is much esteemed by the natives, who take them 

 in traps, and they are much more frequent on the western 

 than the eastern side of the mountains. I observed them on 

 the mountains near the Wolf's Plain, and also saw there the 

 following little animal, Arctomys Parryi^ which is abundant 

 there, and in its manners appearing exactly to resemble 

 those species which inhabit the plains about Carlton, Speci- 

 mens of it were brought home. There is also another 

 diminutive animal found among the Rocky Mountains, whose 

 general form and appearance exactly resembles a young 

 rabbit of five or six weeks old, having small round ears. It 

 is probably another kind of marmot, and lives in rough 

 stony places near the summits of the mountains. It has a 

 weak cry, resembling that of a rabbit when hurt. Upon the 

 approach of any one, it gives the alarm, disappearing among 

 the stones, and soon showing itself again at a distance of fif- 

 teen or twenty yards from its first station. They appear to 

 make no burrows of their own, but make their way among 

 the interstices of the stones with great celerity. They live on 

 grass, and probably sleep during the winter. 



Among the birds of these regions, the Calumet Eagle is 

 one of the scarcest. It is about the size of the common grey 

 eagle of our mountains, and nearly of the same colour, the 

 tail excepted, which is very beautiful,— black at both ex- 

 tremities, and white in the middle. They are highly prized 

 by the natives, who decorate their war bonnets and the sterns 

 of their calumets with their feathers, whence I have adopted 

 the name. It would appear that they are very rare, as I 

 never saw any but the one I killed. It was a very old bird, 

 and the plumage in bad order, having been shot in the sum- 

 mer-time, upon the summit of one of the mountains near 



