TULARE COUNTY. 



This county as to its fauna is in close harmony with the adjoining 

 county of Kern. It has similar high Sierra Mountain lands, with gla- 

 cier and snow-fed trout streams, and its valley rivers and lakes and 

 irrigation waters strikingly correspond with those of Kern. The flora is 

 identical, unless it should be that Kern has no Sequoia gigantea, of which 

 forest monarch Tulare has immense groves. Tulare also has some advan- 

 tages in more extended parks of burr and live-oaks. Its mountain region 



GREEN-WINGED TEAI,. 



Anas Carolinensis. 



is drained by the Kaweah and Kings rivers. These create a rich field 

 for sport with rod and gun. Bear, deer and animals of prey are to be 

 found, and all the usual game birds of the Sierra grouse, quail, pigeons, 

 doves and larks and the streams richly stocked with gamiest of fish, one 

 of them the noted Kern River Trout, (Salmo gairdneri gilberti). 



The line of Southern Pacific Company Fresno to Portervi lie will 

 enable the sportsman to reach some suitable station from which he can 



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