108 UESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



CHAPTER YI. 



ZOOLOGY. 



§ 86. General List. — Among the indigenous animals of Cal- 

 ifornia are the grizzly bear ; the black bear ; the panther , the 

 wild-cat; the gray wolf; the coyote; three foxes; the badger; 

 the raccoon; the opossum; the mountain-cat ; the weasel; two 

 skunks ; one porcupine ; three squirrels ; two spermophiles ; 

 two ground-squirrels ; three rats ; three jumping-rats ; one 

 jumping-mouse ; nine mice ; one mole ; the elk ; one deer ; 

 one antelope ; the mountain-sheep ; three hares ; two rabbits ; 

 the seal ; the sea-otter ; the sea-lion ; the beaver ; two vul- 

 tures ; the golden eagle ; the bald eagle ; the fishhawk ; 

 eighteen other hawks ; nme owls ; the road-runner ; twelve 

 woodpeckers ; four humming-birds ; eleven flycatchers ; one 

 hundred and nine singers; one pigeon; two doves; three 

 grouse; three quails; one sandhUl crane; forty-one waders; 

 sixty-six swimmers, including two swans and five geese ; about 

 two dozen snakes, including the rattlesnake ; half a dozen sal- 

 mon ; two codfish ; and one mackerel. 



§87. Bears.— "Ti\Q grizzly bear {Ursus horrihilis) is the 

 largest and most formidable of the quadrupeds of California. 

 He grows to be foiir feet high and seven feet long, with a 

 Aveight, when very large and fiit, of two thousand pounds, be- 

 ing the largest of the carnivorous animals, and much heavier 

 than the hon or tiger ever get to be. The grizzly bear, how- 

 over, as ordinarily seen, does not exceed eight hundred oi 

 nine himdred pounds in weight. In color the body is a light 

 grayish-brown, dark brown about the ears and along the ridge- 

 of the back, and nearly black on the legs. The hair is long. 



