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and in flight carries its tail well up. Its short legs do not permit 

 it to stand high, and the body is chunky, and I imagine would 

 weigh more than the average Virginia deer of the same size and 

 age. About the settlements it is persistently hunted and its 

 numbers have been much reduced in late years. 

 Two specimens : Happy Lake. 



ORDER CARNIVORA. 



FAM. FELID.E. 

 19. Felis rufa fasciata. 



Lynx fasciatus. Raf. Am. Month. Mag., vol. ii, 1817, p. 46. 

 The wild cat is very numerous in the Olympics, and all that I 

 saw were remarkable for the rich chestnut red color of their coat. 

 Some specimens, notably the one I brought back with me, resem- 

 ble mahogany in their coloring. It is a large animal for this 

 form of lynx, and like all its tribe exceedingly savage. 

 One specimen : Lake Southerland. 



FAMILY URSID.E. 

 20. Urus americanus. 



Ursus -americanus. Pall. Spicil. Zool. Fasc. xiv, pp. 5-7. 

 (1780.) 



Black bear were very numerous in the mountains, and we met 

 with them, or evidence of their presence, continually. We, how- 

 ever, only obtained two specimens, an old male and a cub. The 

 animals were very shy, unusually so, and cowardly, and would go 

 off on a full run the moment any of us was sighted. They visit 

 the streams when the salmon are running and become very fat on 

 the fish they catch. There are no grizzlies in the Olympics, and 

 only occasionally, as I was informed, is a cinnamon bear seen. 

 It would be interesting to compare a series of the black bear of 

 these mountains with one of their eastern relatives and ascertain 

 if there is any character for separating them. If the Louisiana 

 and Florida bears are separable it would seem not unlikely that 

 these animals, living in this remote corner of the United States, 

 might also possess claims for distinctness. Mindful of the often 

 wonderful individual variation there is seen in the skulls of nearly 

 all species of mammals, it would not be safe to form an opinion 

 on the specific status of the Olympic bear without having a num- 



