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of middle toe of hind foot 1.375 in., length of claw of middle toe of hind 

 foot .5 in., length of neck 2 in., length of body 11 in., length of tail 1.125 in. 



Female — The sides of the female are a lighter brown than those of 

 the male and the white of the lower parts have longer hairs of brown 

 scattered through them in numbers enough to make those parts appear 

 light brown. The female is considerably larger than the male. 



Both the male and female rabbits walk more on the hind leg from 

 the knee down to the foot than the "cotton tail" does. These rabbits are 

 quite numerous. 



Cervus canadensis occklentalis H. Smith (C. roosevelti Merr.) Roosevelt 



Elk. 



Description : Head, neck, legs, rump black to brown. 



This animal is now found principally above three thousand feet ele- 

 vation. They are not plentiful. I saw seventeen near the Soleduck Hot 

 Springs in August, 1906. 



Odocoileus (Cervus) lierminous Rafin. Black-tailed Deer. 



This deer is found principally in the "Frozen Lake" country up near 

 the Olympics proper. It is not plentiful. 



Felis rufa fasciata Elliot (Raf.). 



This animal is large and savage. It is due to the ravages of this 

 animal that the deer and elk have been so reduced in numbers. In color 

 it is a rich chestnut to a mahogany red. 



Canis la-trans Say. Coyote. 



Two of these animals were killed by one of the forest rangers last 

 year. They evidently were strays. * 



Canis nuMlus Say. Gray Wolf. 



These animals are now practically extinct; the settlers killed them 

 by wholesale with poison to keep them from making raids on their sheep 

 ranches. 



Vrsus americanus Pall. Black Bear. 



This is a very common animal. It lives principally on berries in the 

 fall of the year. The principal berries it eats are salal, salmon, red elder, 

 thimble, huckleberries and blueberries. It gets fat on berries and is 

 then good eating. In the spring it lives principally on skunk cabbage. It 

 digs it up and eats it root and all. But when the salmon begin to "run" 

 the bear leaves his cabbage garden and his berry patch and turns fisher- 



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