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close together under a lowSliasta lir on a stecj) slope, from which they 

 could overlook the coimtry below. 



C. H. Townsend, in his notes on the inanuiials of ncntheru California, 

 gives an interesting aecoiint of tliis deer. 



Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque). Mule Deer. 



In the region east of Shasta, where the Columbia black-tail is the 

 prevailing species, C. II. Townsend occasionall}' found the mule deer. 

 " But in Lassen County, a hundred miles farther south, the reverse was 

 fouiul to be the case," and he saw nothing of the Columbia black-tail. 

 This was in 1883 and 1884. The mule deer was not observed on Shasta 

 by our party, although the tracks of an immense buck, seen by me 

 early in August on the rim of INIud Creek Canyon, may have been made 

 by it. Sherman Powell, in a recent article in Forest and Stream (April 

 27, 1899), states that mule deer are identiful a little east of Shasta "on 

 and around Glass Mountain, and also on the northeast sloi)es of Black 

 Fox Mountain." 



Cervus occidentalis Ham, Smith. Elk. 



( )ne of our party, R. T. Fisher, was informed by George B. Mitchell, 

 county surveyor of Siskiyou County, that elk were shot in the neigh- 

 borhood of Sisson as late as the early seventies. They were formerly 

 abundant on and about Shasta, particularly in S(juaw Creek Valley 

 and Elk Flat, and used to range along the Scott ^Mountains, and thence 

 westerly to the coast, where a few still exist. 



Antilocapra americana Ord. I'rong-horn Antelope. 



Antelope, we were told, still inhabit the open i)ine forest east and 

 northeast of Shasta. Formerly they were common in Shasta Valley and 

 ranged west into the foothills of the Scott and Siskiyou mountains. 



The following infornuition regarding their distribution was obtained 

 by Walter K. Fisher: In winter they ranged in the country between the 

 l^dgewood divide and the foothills of the Siskiyou mountains north of 

 I Iornl)rook, extending into the low valleys west of Shasta lliver. They 

 were most plentiful in the region between Little Shasta and Gazelle. 

 Mr. Masgrave, one of the first settlers in Little Shasta Valley, is 

 authority for the statement that Ibrmerly they licMiuently herded with 

 his cattle. In Scarface Valley, west of Gazelle, he once saw a large 

 herd which contained not less than two thousand animals. 



In summer the antelope ranged extensively through Goose Nest 

 Mountain and wooded valleys in Butte Creek region, as well as in Shasta 

 A'alley, I>ig \'alley, Fall Kiver Valley, and about Tule Lake, Klamath 

 i'alls, and Goose Lake. At present only a small herd remains. They 

 stay in the remoter valleys east of the mountains and rarely come to 

 Shasta Valley. In the summer of 1898 three were seen on the road 

 between Little Shasta post-office and Butte Creek. 



