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far that it was badly out of breath. Stewart climbed 

 the tree and took several photographs of it, pushing the 

 camera up to within about four feet of where the cat 

 sat. Lambert obtained photographs of both Stewart and 

 the cat. Shorty was at this time still an invalid from his 

 encounter with the bear, but Skip worked his way thirty 

 feet up the tree in his effort to get at the bobcat. Lam- 

 bert shot the latter with his revolver, the bobcat dying 

 stuck in the branches; and he then had to climb the tree 

 to get both the bobcat and Skip, as the latter was at such 

 a height that we thought he would hurt himself if he 

 fell. Another bobcat when treed sealed his own fate 

 by stepping on a dead branch and falling right into the 

 jaws of the pack. 



At this camp, as everywhere, the tiny four-striped 

 chipmunks were plentiful and tame; they are cheerful, 

 attractive little animals. We also saw white-footed mice 

 and a big meadow mouse around camp ; and we found 

 a young brushy-tailed pack-rat. The snowshoe rabbits 

 were still white on the mountains, but in the lower valleys 

 they had changed to the summer pelage. On the moun- 

 tains we occasionally saw woodchucks and rock squirrels 

 of two kinds, a large and a small Spermophilus gram- 

 murus and armatus. The noisy, cheerful pine squirrels 

 were common where the woods were thick. There were 

 eagles and ravens in the mountains, and once we saw 

 sandhill cranes soaring far above the highest peaks. The 

 long-crested jays came familiarly around camp, but on 

 this occasion we only saw the whiskey- jacks, Clark's nut- 

 crackers and magpies, while off in the mountains. 



