90 U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AMD SURVEYS — 47TH PARALLEL. 



Specimens of the young, (62, G9,) and of the adult (10, 115) were collected at Steilacoom. 

 They are called panthers by the settlers, and are tolerably abundant, a half dozen having been 

 obtained in the neighborhood within a year. 



LYNX FASCIATUS, Eaf. 



Red Cat. 



Lynx fasciaha, Raf. Am. Month. Mag. II, Nov. 1817, 46. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 96. 

 Tiger cat, Lewis & Clark, Travels, II, 1814, 167. 

 yi>. Cii. — Fur very soft and full. Ears pencilled. Color, rich chesnut brown on the back, a little paler on the sides and on 

 the throat. A dorsal darker band collar on throat, as dark as the sides. Region along central line of belly (rather narrow one) 

 dull whitish, with dusky spots extending to lower part of sides. No spots or bands discernible on the upper part of sides. 

 Ears black inside, with a very inconspicuous patch of grayish. Terminal third of tail above, black. 



Specimens were obtained at Fort Steilacoom, (114, 97, 87, 63,) at Olympia, and at Port 

 Townsend, W. T. (134.) This species is called Fish Fish by the Nisqually Indians. 



CANIS OCCIDENTALIS, var. GKISEO-ALBUS. 



Gray Wolf. 



" Canis (Lupus) griseus, Sabine, in Franklin's Journal, 654." (Gray.) 



AuD. & Bach. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1854,279. (Gray.) 

 Cants (Lnpxis) occidenlalis, var. griseus, Rich, F. B. A. 1, 1829, 66. (Gray.) 

 Canis occidenlalis, Dekat, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 42 ; pi. xxvii, (. 2. (Gray.) 

 *' Canis (Lupus) albus, Sabine, in Franklin's Jour. 652." (White.) 



Aid. &. Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 136 ; pi. ixxii. (White.) 

 var. P, Rich. F. B. A. I, 1829, 68. (White.) 

 Canis occidentalis, var. griseo-albus, Eaibd, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 104. 

 Sp. Cn. — Color of various shades from gray to white. 



Four skins were obtained at Fort Dalles, 0. T, in 1854, (47, 48, 49, 58.) 

 Mountain wolf shot on Fifteen Mile Creek, near Fort Dalles, in December. 

 These wolves are very abundant in the neighborhood of the sources of the streams flowing 

 into the Columbia from the Cascade, and Blue mountains. In the winter, until March, they 

 come down into the valleys, where they are very destructive to horses, hunting them singly or 

 in packs. They destroy the largest horses by hamstringing them while running. This is their 

 favorite way of hunting. They are about 3 feet high. A skin which I saw at Fort Vancouver 

 was much lighter, but otherwise agreed with this specimen. It was from the Columbia, west 

 of the Cascades. 



CANIS OCCIDENTALIS, var. NUBILUS. 



Dusky Wolf. 



Conis ?»uH/«s, Sat, in Long's Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 168. 



Doughtt's Cabinet Nat. Hist. II, 1832, 265; plate xxiii. 

 Canis occidentalis var. nubilus, Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 111. 

 Sp. Ch. — Color, light sooty, or plumbeous brown. 



One specimen obtained at Steilacoom, (66.) 



CANIS LATRANS, Say. 



Prairie Wolf; Coyote. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 113. 



A skin of the young of this species was obtained at Bois de Sioux, Minn., in 1853, and a 

 skull in Washington Territory. 



