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Creek, a fine buck, with four points to the horns, which were in 

 the velvet. Mr. Baker found a big hole in the body where the ani- 

 mal had been shot before. He says deer often get off with bad 

 wounds, the bullet finally becoming encysted, and the animal ap- 

 parently suffering no permanent ill effects. The big bucks, he 

 claimed, along towards the end of July, go off by themselves on 

 the high ridges, only coming down for water. The does and young 

 ones stay more in the canon bottoms. As is often the case in other 

 regions, there are popular theories as to there being several dif- 

 ferent species of deer, for instance a long-legged kind and a short- 

 legged one. But we failed to secure evidence that would go to 

 show the presence of any time species other than Odocoileus colum- 

 bianus. 



LIST OF THE BIRDS, WITH ANNOTATIONS 



Actitis macularius (Linnaeus). Spotted Sandpiper. Two adult 

 skins (nos. 19120, 19121), from Jackson Lake, June 18 and 20. 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linnaeus). Killdeer. Observed June 4 

 at Mayten. 



Oreortyx picta picta (Douglas). Mountain Quail. Nine speci- 

 mens (nos. 17299-17302, 19122-19126), from Helena, head of Bear 

 Creek and Castle Lake. Three of these, taken August 15, 16 and 

 20, are juvenals, and in this plumage the characters distinguishing 

 picta from plumifera are better shown than in the adult. These 

 characters consist in a warmer brown suffusion dorsally and 

 greater extent of black markings. 



Numerous at nearly all of the mountain stations. On July 8, 

 on north fork of Coffee Creek, the writer caught sight of a weasel 

 in pursuit of a mountain quail. The bird was clucking in a dis- 

 tressed manner and evidently leading the enemy away from where 

 her chicks were. When the weasel got her to a safe distance he 

 ran back, jumped over a log, and was seen to make off with a 

 small victim in his mouth. The whole episode did not occupy two 

 minutes and occurred in a clearing in broad daylight. 



Lophortyx calif arnica vallicola (Ridgway). Valley Quail. Two 

 skins (nos. 17303, 19127), from Helena and Scott River. A nest 



