72 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA 



[No. 55 



In 1896, when the first work of the Biological Survey was begun in 

 Oregon, Clark P. Streator reported them common in the Warner 

 Lake and Alvord Valleys, and in the sagebrush country along both 

 sides of the Steeris Mountains. The same year, Merriam, Preble, and 

 the writer found them fairly abundant in the Silver Creek section, on 

 the Steens Mountains, and in the Beatys Butte, Guano Lake, and 

 Hart Mountain section, along Paulina Creek and the upper Deschutes 

 River, in the Klamath marshes, and on the Pumice Desert between 

 Crater Lake and Diamond Lake. The same year they were reported 

 by George Bird Grinnell, on authority of Lester B. Hartman, as 

 plentiful on the Pumice Desert at the head of the North Fork of 

 Umpqua Eiver, where several hundred had been seen (1897, p. 6). 



In 1897 Captain Applegate, in Swan Lake Valley, just east of 

 Klamath Falls, told the writer that antelope had not been seen in 

 that valley for 10 years, although formerly they had almost always 

 been visible in the open part of the valley. On the way north from 

 Lakeview to Prineville that year, antelope tracks were seen in the 

 sagebrush valleys north of Summer Lake, and the animals were said 

 to be common in that section, although none was seen by the writer's 

 party. A few also were found that year between Tule Lake and 

 Goose Lake. 



In 1910 the Forest Service supervisors reported antelope as still 

 found in the Malheur National Forest, as very scarce in the Deschutes 

 National Forest, and as of very doubtful occurrence in the Umpqua. 

 According to Finley (1908, p. 295) L. E. Hibbard, of Burns, estimated 

 the number of antelope in Harney County at not more than 2,500, and 

 said that a bunch of 45, which 5 years previously had lived on the 

 Rye Grass Flats southeast of Burns, had entirely disappeared. 

 Farther east from Ironside, Anthony (1913, p. 5) reported antelope 

 formerly ranging over the open country in northern Malheur County 

 in large numbers, where as late as 1908 a band of fifteen or twenty 

 had been reported near Ironside. 



In 1913 Stanley G. Jewett and Harry Telford estimated about 

 2,000 antelope in the Hart Mountain section 3 of southern Oregon. 

 The following year, Luther J. Goldman visited the Hart Mountain 

 section where he found antelope fairly common, usually in small 

 bunches, not more than 25 being seen together at a time. 



In 1915 Jewett made a careful survey of the antelope in eastern 

 Oregon and sent a full report to the Biological Survey. In the 

 country lying east of Warner Lakes and south to the Nevada 

 line in Lake County, he estimated approximately 1,000 head of 

 antelope; in Malheur County, 500; Harney County, 300; Crook 

 County, 30; and Klamath County, 10; a total of 1,840 for the State. 

 He was also told by sheepmen at Willows of a bunch of 18 antelope 

 having recently been seen in Morrow County south of Heppner. He 

 learned also from a cattleman of an antelope seen on June 10, on the 

 open hills south of Lookout Mountain and east of Prineville, and was 

 told that Big Summit Prairie at the east base of Lookout Mountain 

 had been a favorite summer range of antelope only a few years 

 before. 



8 Called Warner Mountain region in field reports to include the long low range east of 

 Warner Valley. 



