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sured by several men who claimed to have seen 

 them a few months before my visit that moun- 

 tain sheep also survive in the Four Peaks, on 

 the Arizona-New Mexico line, south of Ord 

 Peak, though probably few in number. These 

 mountains are well adapted to this, the finest of 

 our game animals, and it is to be hoped that 

 poachers will permit them to increase. 



Other species of game are fairly plentiful 

 here. There are a good many deer, chiefly black 

 tail, but also a few white tail, and a few silver 

 tip bears, as well as the small black or brown 

 bear. 



Wild turkeys are very plentiful in the region 

 west of the two peaks. On a single morning we 

 saw three large flocks within a period of two 

 hours. Turkey feathers were common at every 

 turn. A superstition prohibits the Apaches 

 from killing turkeys, and they are therefore 

 only interfered with by white hunters, though 

 of course many of them are destroyed by the 

 big cats. 



Predatory animals, such, for instance, as cats 

 and mountain lions, are over numerous, and they 

 undoubtedly prey to a very large extent upon 

 game animals and birds. To hunt them, how- 

 ever, or to hunt bears successfully in this broken 

 country, one must have the assistance of a good 



HMMtM— — _. 



