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Two skins from central California, one from Tulare, the other 

 from El Dorado County, are decidedly different in color from 

 the single Vancouver Island skin, being very much duller and 

 without the reddish appearance of the latter. 



Cranial Measurements of Felis oregonensis prom Vancouver Island 



Canis occidentalis Richardson 

 Gray Wolf 



Wolves are quite abundant in the wilder parts of at least the 

 northern two-thirds of Vancouver Island, sufficiently so to be a 

 serious menace to the deer in many places. While at Parksville 

 Miss Alexander was presented with the skull of a wolf killed near 

 by, on Englishman's River, some time before. At Beaver Creek 

 one was heard howling one night, and I was told that they were 

 occasionally seen in the valley during the winter, but very seldom 

 in summer. At Nootka they were said to be abundant. On the 

 Tahsis Canal we stayed at the camp of a trapper who made it 

 his principal occupation during the winter to hunt wolves and 

 panthers, and who evidently secured enough to make it pay. 

 The Provincial government pays a bounty of fifteen dollars a 

 head on these two species, and this added to the value of the fur 

 makes it, if not a very lucrative pursuit, at least sufficiently so to 

 induce some men to devote considerable of their time to it. This 

 man used poison exclusively, and seemed to have no trouble in 

 killing the animals. In several years hunting he had seen but 

 two or three alive, for they are extremely cunning in keeping 

 out of sight. 



I secured three skulls from him, of animals killed during the 



