100 DOUGLAS’ SKETCH OF A JOURNEY IN THE 
an uniform pea-grey. I have not seen it as well as on the sand-banks in the Colur 
myself, but have provided one of the bia. They migrate to the northwar 
hunters with shot to procure it for me. April, and return in October. The male 
In the upper country are two or three of the Grey Goose is a handsome mot 
kinds of Grouse; one a very large bright bird. A pair of each of these Geese is in 
grey bird, as large as the smaller size of my collection. 
Turkeys, is plentiful and easily procured; ^ There are perhaps three species, or e 
another, about the size of a hen, of a black- distinct varieties, of the Swan. First, the 
ish colour, is also abundant, it cackles ex- Common Swan, then a smaller kind of the 
actly like the domestic fowl, and never same colour; and thirdly, another, equal 
flies, but runs along the ground. in size to the first, bluish grey on the back, 
The Large Grouse I have not seen neck, and head, and white on the belly; 1t 
alive, but often observed its tail-feathers, is probably specifically distinct, as the co- 
and part of the skin, decorating the war- lour is preserved in all stages of its growth, 
caps of the Indians from the Interior. and it is not so common as the rest. # 
A species very distinct from the Cucu- these frequent like places as the Geese, 
lus cristatus of Wilson, is the Small Blue and migrate at the same time. To my re- 
Jay (Garrulus Stelleri ?, Vieillot); indeed gret, I was only able to obtain one speci- 
I do not remember to have read any de- men, a female of the last species. 
scription at all according with it. Unlike Of the ten or twelve species of 
the common Jay of our country, which is found on the Columbia, I could obtain but 
very shy, and in autumn is seen in large three. 
flocks, but never near houses, the Jay of | My desire of preserving ani T: 
the Columbia is very tame, and visits the birds was often frustrated by the heavy 
dunghills of the Indian villages, like an rains that fell at this season. Among " 
English robin, sometimes thirty or forty of kinds of the latter ‘which chiefly d 
the birds coming together. It is of adarker attention are, Tetrao Sabini and Rich 
blue than the European kind, and has a soni, Sarcocamphos Californica, Corvus 
black crest. Three of them are preserved. „Stelleri, and some species of the gen 
` The Large Horned Owl seems not very Anas. There are several kinds of Cervus, : 
abundant, I never saw more than twelve Canis, Mus, and Myoxus, though the va: — 
or fourteen. One I killed by the light of riety of quadrupeds is by no means 
the moon, having watched for it during great in the North- West as in many 
several successive evenings; it was not, parts of America. : 
however, the species I was in quest of, The Elk (Cervus Alces), which 
which is much larger than the Snowy Owl, hunters say agrees precisely with the 4 
and of a yellowish brown colour. of the other side of this great Contin® 
"There are two species of Crow, one large is found in all the woody country, and. E 
and the other small; the lesser kind is ticularly abundant near the coast. 
shyer and not so abundant, being only seen are two other species of Deer—one Le 5 
on the banks of rivers and near old en- grey, white on the belly and inside ! 
campments, where it feeds upon carrion. legs, with a very long tail, a foot to 
This bird is in my collection; it was killed inches long. -It is called by the b 
in February. le Chevreuil, or Jumping Deer K 
In the Wild Fowl there appears little leucurus), and is very small, with . 
difference from what generally inhabit the about eighteen inches long; and 
wild districts of America. The Common curved inwards, very round, and not 
Canadian Wild Goose (Anas Canaden- than once or twice branched. 
sis?), with the Grey or Calling Goose, The other species is the Bla 
and the Small White Goose, are abundant Deer (Cervus macrotis of Say), of at 
on all the lakes, marshes, and low grounds, hue on the back, and bluish grey, * 
