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ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



Pend d'Oreille range, on the borders of British North 

 America. Even in midwinter they shun the valley set- 

 tlements. During ice-storms that drive the black bear 

 to his den and kill black cattle in the river-valleys the 

 cimarron survives where the hill-foxes wander, in the 

 pine wolds and box-elder coppices of the dreary uplands. 



WINTER QUARTERS. 



In November, and sometimes at Christmas, the miners 

 of Bannock City hear the cry of the old rams in the 

 highland-gorges, a long-drawn, booming bark; not a 



