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to the requirements of all the various species of big 

 game which not many years ago used to abound in 

 these mountains, but we never saw a track of any 

 kind, old or new, and Graham did not seem to think 

 that there was a single deer left anywhere near the 

 road. We saw, however, numbers of the beautiful 

 little striped squirrels called chipmunks (Tamias 

 striatus). These little creatures were very tame and 

 often allowed us to approach to within a few yards of 

 them. Larger reddish-grey squirrels (Sciurus hud- 

 sonius\ very similar to our English animal, were also 

 common and sometimes extraordinarily tame. Of 

 birds I saw but few in these mountains, but I noticed 

 a pair of American water ouzels (Cinclus mexicanus) 

 on one of the mountain streams we crossed, which 

 except in colour appeared just like our English bird, 

 as they flitted from stone to stone or stood bobbing 

 up and down on the rocks. These American birds 

 were of a uniform slaty-blue colour. In the pine 

 forests the camp robbers were common, as well as a 

 species of tit (Parus gambelli?) and a handsome 

 black and white woodpecker with (in the male) a 

 bright red head, but altogether bird-life was very 

 badly represented. Birds of prey seemed entirely 

 absent, and I did not notice either a hawk or an eagle 

 of any kind whilst crossing the Bighorn range. 



During the afternoon we crossed the main divide 

 of the Bighorn Mountains at an altitude of ninety- 

 six hundred feet, rocky ridges rising about one thou- 



