NORTH-WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
_ yellow; its tail is shorter, not exceeding 
from eight inches to a foot, and the ears 
remarkably large, much like those of an 
Ass, and of the same dark colour as the 
tail. This is a considerably larger animal 
than the Chevreuil, and less plentiful ; both 
are found in the upland countries, all 
through the great range of mountains 
which extend across the lands of the 
Snake and Flat-head Indians. I sent last 
October to England a young Chevreuil, 
which I had killed on the Multnomak Ri- 
ver, where these creatures are remarkably 
abundant. As nothing could be more in- 
teresting to me than a knowledge of this 
genus, I have instructed several of the 
hunters in the mode of preparing the skin, 
and furnished them with a small quantity 
of preserving powder; so that I do hope 
to obtain at least a pair of each. 
There are two sorts of Rabbit and one 
of Hare, but none of them have I seen 
alive; the latter, which is only found in 
the Interior, is said to be very large. 
On the Multnomak there is a most sin- 
gular kind of Foz, smaller than any other, 
except the White Fox of North-East Ame- 
rica, its extreme length being only from 
thirty-three to forty inches. The hair is 
remarkably short, and very coarse, and 
what is most singular, each hair is brown 
at the bottom, white in the middle, and 
black atthe points, which gives the crea- 
ture a light grey colour; the belly white, 
and the sides of the neck and body, as well 
as the forehead, brown; the ears and nose 
Somewhat black, and it has a grey beard 
and a black stroke from the shoulders to 
the tip of the tail. The propensity which 
this Fox exhibits for climbing trees distin- 
Buishes it from all the other species; he 
mounts with as much facility as a Squirrel. 
The first I saw was on the Multnomak, 
Where this kind of Fox is by no means 
Tare 
A large Lynz (Felis rufa, Richardson 
and Guidenst.) was started by Mr. M‘Leod 
and me when we were on a hunting excur- 
Sion in the month of February. The small 
. Bull-dog belonging to that gentleman 
‘Caught it by the throat and killed it with- 
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out any further trouble. It was a full- 
grown female, and the skin not being much 
injured, I mean to have it neatly preserved. 
Several kinds of Mice and Rats are 
found on the banks of the rivers, but I have 
been unable to catch any more of a singu- 
lar species with pouches, of which large 
numbers had visited us last autumn. The 
Ground Rat, or Arctomys (Arctomys bra- 
chyurus ?), of whose skins the Chenook 
and other tribes of Indians make their 
robes, I hear are plentiful in the upper 
parts of the Cowalidsk River, but my en- 
feebled state when I was tliere last Novem- 
ber prevented my hunting for any, and my 
subsequent attempts have been unsuc- 
cessful, 
On the Multnomak River, about thirty- 
six miles above its junction with the Co- 
lumbia, there are fine Falls, about forty- 
three feet in perpendicular height, across 
the whole river in an oblique direction ; 
when the water is low, they are divided . 
into three principal channels, but when it 
is high the whole stream rushes over in 
one unbroken sheet. This place was at 
one time considered the finest hunting- 
ground for Beaver (Castor Fiber, var. 
Americanus) West of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, and much have I been gratified in 
viewing the lodges and dams constructed 
by that wise and industrious little animal. 
The same place is frequented by large 
numbers of a species of Deer (probably 
the Cervus Wapiti described as having 
been seen by Capt. Franklin's party); but 
though seventeen of these creatures, male 
and female, were killed during a stay that 
I made there in autumn 1825, only a small 
young male, about four months, could be 
ceded to me for preservation, owing to the 
great scarcity of provision. 
The quantity of Salmon (Salmo Scou- 
leri? Richardson) taken in the Columbia 
is almost incredible, and the Indians resort 
in great numbers to the best fishing spots, 
often travelling several hundred miles for 
this purpose. The salmon are captured in 
the following manner :—Before the water 
rises, small channels are made among the — - 
rocks and stones, dividing the stream into — 
