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large Titmouse of the Eastern States, while I walked off a 

 short distance, and made a sketch of the camp and the 

 three Mamcllcs. I hope to sec a fair picture from this, 

 painted by Victor, this next winter, God willing. Dur- 

 ing the night the bulls were heard bellowing, and the 

 Wolves howling, all around us. Bell had seen evidences 

 of Grizzly Bears close by, but we saw none of the animals. 

 An Antelope was heard snorting early this morning, and 

 scon for a while, but La Fleur could not get it. The 

 snorting of the Antelope is more like a whistling, sneez- 

 ing sound, than like the long, clear snorting of our com- 

 mon Deer, and it is also very frequently repeated, say 

 every few minutes, when in sight of an object of which 

 the animal does not yet know the nature ; for the moment 

 it is assured of danger, it bounds three or four times like 

 a sheep, and then either trots off or gallops like a horse. 

 On the return of the gentlemen from the eminence, from 

 which they had seen nothing but a Hawk, and heard the 

 notes of the Rock Wren, the horses were gathered, and 

 preparations made to go in search of cows. I took my 

 gun and walked off ahead, and on ascending the first hill 

 saw an Antelope, which, at first sight, I thought was an 

 Indian. It stood still, gazing at me about five hundred 

 yards off; I never stirred, and presently it walked towards 

 mo; I lay down and lowered my rifle; the animal could 

 not now ee my body; I showed it my feet a few times, at 

 interval ., Presently I saw it coming full trot towards 

 mo; I onclvc'i i ly gun, loaded with buck-shot in one bar- 

 species after my young friend Spencer F. Baird, of Carlisle, Pennavlv.inia." 

 Special interest attaches to this case; for the bird was not only the first one 

 ever dedicated to Haird, but the last one ever named, described, and fimired 

 by Audubon; and the plate of it completes the series of exactly 500 plates 

 which the octavo edition of the " Birds of America" contains. This bird 

 became the Centronyx hairdii of Haird, the Passrrculus t-urdi of Coues, and 

 the Ammodramus bairdi of some other ornithologists. See " Hirds of the 

 Colorado Valley," i., 1878, p. 630. One of Audubon's specimens shot this 

 day is catalogued in Baird's Birds of N. Am., 1858, p 441. — E. C. 



