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CHAPTER Xn. 



ZOOLOGy. 



300. General List. Among the indigenous animals of 

 California are the grizzly bear, the black bear, the cougar, the 

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

 the raccoon, the opossum, the mountain-cat, the weazel, 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 vultures, the golden eagle, 

 the bald eagle, the fishhawk, eighteen other hawks, nine 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 sandhill crane, forty- 

 one waders, sixty-six swimmers, including two swans and five 

 geese, about two dozen snakes, including the rattlesnake, half 

 a dozen salmon, two codfish, and one mackerel. 



301. Sears. The grizzly bear, ( TTrsus horribilis) is the 

 largest and most formidable of the quadrupeds of California. 

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

 weight, when very large and fat, of two thousand pounds, be- 

 ing the largest of the carnivorous animals, and much heavier 

 than the lion or tiger ever get to be, but ordinarily does not 

 exceed eight or nine hundred pounds in weight. In color the 

 body is a light grayish-brown, dark brown about the ears and 



