110 ZOOLOGY. 



Measurements of specimens. 



No. 121.— Fort Steilacoom, October 10, 1856. Female. 



From nose to base of occiput 7.00 incbes. 



From nose to base of tail 33. 50 ' ' 



Tail vertebras. 6.87 " 



From base of tail to end of bairy tip. 7.50 " 



Span of fore and hind foot — extreme stretch 65.00 " 



Easy girth behind shoulders 18.25 " 



This cat was fat and in good order. 



Another. No. 114 was a male killed in a farmer's yard, near Fort Steilacoom, August 8, 

 1856. It had committed many depredations upon the poultry and young pigs of the establish- 

 ment. 



From occiput to nose 6.50 inches. 



From nose to base of tail 31.50 " 



Tail vertebrfe G.75 " 



Tail to end of hairy tip.. 7.25 " 



Span of fore and hind legs — extreme reach 54.00 " 



Fore arm, about 6. 00 " 



Another. Male; Port Townshend, December 18, 1856. No. 134. 



From nose to occiput 7.25 inches. 



From nose to base of tail 32.00 " 



Tail vertebrjB 8.00 " 



Tail to end of hairy tip 8.50 " 



The locality from whence this specimen was obtained shows that the range of the species 

 extends on both sides of Puget Soiind, and among the spurs of both the Cascade and Coast 

 range of mountains. — S. 



Note. — For several skins of this lynx, and for many other scientific as well as i^ersonal 

 favors, I am indebted to my friend the popular and highly esteemed secretary of Washington 

 Territory, his excellency the Hon. Charles H. Mason. 



CANIS OCCIDENTALIS, var. GRISEO-ALBUS. 

 Gray Wolf. 



Baird, Gen. Eep. Mammals, 1857, 104. 

 Sp. Cn. — Color of various shades, from gray to white. Some skins are much tinged with brown. 



The Gray Wolf occurs on the Clatsop Plains, near the mouth of the Columbia, and also upon 

 the Nisqually Plains, Puget Sound. It attains a very large size, and is too much for any 

 single dog. It is called by the Chinooks Ileakhura, and is the Spih^er of the Yakimas. 



A black wolf was seen by me in the mountains between Scott's and Shasta valleys, in northern 

 California, in 1851. Several were together. A "black wolf," perhaps the same, perhaps the 

 C. mibilus, or "dusky wolf," is found on the Nisqually Plains, Puget Sound. Some skins are 

 grizzled. — G. 



Owing to the variety in the shades and colors of the wolves of Oregon, the settlers at the 

 Dalles, mistaking varieties for species or "kinds," consider that there are more species than 

 -the examination of many skins in the Smithsonian collection seems to justify. 



There is considerable diflercnce of opinion among the white inhabitants as to the number of 



