102 THE SAGE RABBIT. 
‘plastron’) being a brilliant yellow. I believe this 
is the only species of freshwater turtle found in 
the waters of British Columbia; its adult size is 
about nine inches in length, and eight in width. 
In ferreting out the turtle’s eggs, I constantly 
disturbed the beautiful little Sage Rabbit ; scarcely 
ten inches in length, it looks more lke a rat than 
a rabbit, when scudding nimbly away amidst 
‘ the grass. The fur is light-grey, and very like 
the sand and dry leaves amidst which it delights 
to sit. The Wasco Indians call it Za-lak. 
I procured specimensof this rabbit at the Dalles, 
Cow Creek, and Colville; its favourite haunts 
are the narrow belts of scrub that fringe the 
banks of streams, hiding in crevices or among the 
débris at the base of a cliff, or, failing these places 
of concealment, makes burrows in the sandbanks; 
it breeds early. I obtained a doe in March, heavy 
with young, and am disposed to think this rabbit 
is only found east of the Cascades. 
I found, in rambling over the sandy plain near 
old Fort Walla-walla, numbers of flint imple- 
ments, together with heaps of fragments. At some 
remote period of time not easy to discover, the 
Indians evidently made their arrow-heads and 
other implements of flint at this place. The stone 
of which they were made could not have been 
