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of similar age being " faded and gone," or he is a sentinel 

 ram doing scout duty on the flanks for a bunch of other 

 rams. 



The natural enemies of the sheep are the wolf, lynx, 

 eagle, and grizzly bear; the eagle preys only upon lambs up 

 to three months of age, after which they are safe from the 

 eagles. The wolf preys only upon sheep where he catches 

 them low down on the hills where the country is smooth, 

 or in low sheep pastures between the mountains, or when 

 crossing the bars of a stream: separating two paralleling 

 ranges. The writer watched a band of six rams crossing 

 such a glacial bar on the St. Clair from one range to an- 

 other and a very cautious undertaking it was. After reach- 

 ing the edge of the tundra three hundred feet above the 

 bottom gravel bed, the rams scouted up and down for a mile 

 along the edge, looking down for enemies. After doing this 

 lookout duty for over an hour, they made a rapid descent to 

 the bottom and at full speed crossed the gravel bars and 

 started up the mountain at the other side. 



The writer has assumed to state that the grizzly preys 

 upon sheep; in so stating he realizes that other naturalists 

 deny this fact, nor can the writer vouch for it upon his own 

 experience. However, Mr. Dixon, one of the writer's 

 guides, who has hunted in this range for years, and Albert 

 the Indian, who has been accustomed to getting his winter 

 supply of meat from this locality, both report the fact of 

 grizzlies early in October, when the sheep are driven by the 

 deep snows to come for feed low down in the canyons, 

 lying in wait for the sheep and killing them in the canyons. 

 Bruce Fisher, our cook, who for a year was with the Inter- 

 national Boundary Survey, reports an interesting hunt in 



