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14-5 inches in depth; tail covered with shert hair, a little less. 
in length than one half the length of the body; body about 6 inches 
' in length. The.pouch is covered with short white hair, and capa- 
ble of being turned inside out. This, I think, was*a youn 1e;5 
hence the slight differences in the size and the colorof its legs, and 
the tail being covered with hair. 
Captain Turner, of the Ist dragoons, brought me a (ortygometra> . 
carolinus;) these birds are in plenty along the Arkansas bottom; 
. this one was caught after a short chase, for it flew a short distance 
only, when it appeared to be’ too much ‘fatigued, or too much 
bewildered to rise again. 
the plants that occur between the Arkansas crossing and 
“ Bent’s fort, I cannot do better than. refer. to the list appended to- 
this report, in which they are arranged in the family to which 
they belong, and the locality mentioned in which they were 
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As one approaches Bent’s fort, he meets with many varieties of 
prairie gourd, (cucumis perennis;) that is abundant also from Bent’s 
fort to Santa Fé. We 
solanas, several] yarieties of cenothera, the martynia, the cleome, 
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varieties of populus; amongst which are the populus canadensis 
: P- monolifera; sevéral varieties of salix, and the plum and 
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Amongst the animals, we have the panther, (felis concolor;) the 
wild cat, (felis rufa;). the white wolf, (canis nubilus;) the prairie 
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borealis. ) There has also beehfound on the Arkansas, within — 
& et miles of Bent’s fort, a singular and but Tittle known bird, 7 
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wolf, (canis Jatrans;) the silver-grey ox, (canis cinerea argentus;). 
and the prairie fox, (canis velox;) prairie dog, (arctomys ludo- 
Viciana;) the gopher, (pseudostoma brissarius;) the antelope, (dicra- 
nocerus furcifer;) the grey bear, (ursus ferox;) also a species of 
-Vespertitia and species of ground-squirrel; it is said that there are. 
three different varieties. Along the Arkansas, where there is suffi- 
e Indians at the fort showed me a. racoon procyon 
Woodpecker, (picus erythrocephalus;) meadow lark, carnal 
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