Bear Traits 



Once in Montana, at a much greater dis- 

 tance, I saw an old bear and two cubs pick- 

 ing huckleberries in a little mountain valley. 

 They walked busily about from bush to bush 

 and seemed to gather the berries one by one, 

 though the distance was too great for me to 

 be sure as to this. The Indians tell me that 

 when the service berries are ripe, the bears 

 " ride " down the taller bushes by their weight, 

 pressing the stems down under the chest, the 

 two forelegs being on either side of the stem. 

 I have seen quite stout service berry trees 

 that had evidently been borne down in pre- 

 cisely this way. 



George Bird GrinnelL 



A SILVER TIP FAMILY 



Most of my hunting of grizzlies was in the 

 Big Horn Mountains, in 1880, 1881, 1882, and 

 1883, at a time when they were not much 

 disturbed, and had not as yet adopted what I 

 understand is now a common habit, of feeding 

 almost exclusively at night. A favorite cus- 

 tom of mine was to ride to a hill or point 



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