HOT, 
of middle toe of hind foot 1.375 in., length of claw of middle toe of hind 
foot .5 in., length of neck 2 in., length of body 11 in., length of tail 1.125 in. 
Female—The sides of the female are a lighter brown than those of 
the male and the white of the lower parts have longer hairs of brown 
scattered through them in numbers enough to make those parts appear 
light brown. The female is considerably larger than the male. 
Both the male and female rabbits walk more on the hind leg from 
the knee down to the foot than the ‘‘cotton tail” does. These rabbits are 
quite numerous. 
Cervus canadensis occidentalis H. Smith (C. roosevelti Merr.) Roosevelt 
Hk. 
Description: Head, neck, legs, rump black to brown. 
This animal is now found principally above three thousand feet ele- 
vation. They are not plentiful. I saw seventeen near the Soleduck Hot 
Springs in August, 1906. 
Odocoileus (Cervus) herminous Rafin. Black-tailed Deer. 
This deer is found principally in the “Frozen Lake” country up near 
the Olympics proper. It is not plentiful. 
Felis rufa fasciata Elliot (Raf.). 
This animal is large and savage. It is due to the ravages of this 
animal that the deer and elk have been so reduced in numbers. In color 
it is a rich chestnut to a mahogany red. 
Canis latrans Say. Coyote. 
Two of these animals were killed by one of the forest rangers last 
year. They evidently were strays. 
Canis mbilus Say. Gray Wolf. 
These animals are now practically extinct; the settlers killed them 
by wholesale with poison to keep them from making raids on their sheep 
sanches. 
Ursus americanus Pall. Black Bear. 
This is a very common animat. ~ It lives principally on berries in the 
fall of the year. The principal berries it eats are salal, salmon, red elder, 
thimble, huckleberries and blueberries. It gets fat on berries and is 
then good eating. In the spring it lives principally on skunk cabbage. It 
digs it up and eats it root and all. But when the salmon begin to “run” 
the bear leaves his cabbage garden and his berry patch and turns fisher- 
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