ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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In other words, where the licks are, there the 

 elk will be found during the summer. 



Years ago the elk went to a lower country 

 to winter, where there were other licks, also 

 salt-grass and salt-sage. Now their winter range 

 is confined to the lower portion of this valley, 

 where there are no licks they can get at, and 

 where there is neither salt-grass nor salt-sage. 

 Under such conditions, we salt our horses and 

 cattle at least every two weeks, to keep them 

 healthy and in a thriving condition. 



Is it reasonable, therefore, to expect that the 

 elk can go for three or four months through 

 this period without salt, and remain in a healthy 

 condition? — S. N. Leek. 



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The illustrations accompanying Mr. S. N. 

 Leek's article in the May number of the Bul- 

 letin, were selected from the author's wonder- 

 ful photographic records of the Elk of Jack- 

 son's Hole. — Editor. 



DESERT SPERMOPHILES 



By Robert Sutcliffe, 

 Staff, New York Aquarium. 



STATIONED about one mile from Douglas,^ 

 Arizona, during the border trouble last 

 summer, the writer had occasion to notice 

 the activity of the ground squirrel (Ammosper- 

 mophiliis?). This little animal, although very 

 abundant in the locality of camp, was so ex- 

 ceedingly shy that only a few specimens were 

 taken. However, if many had been wanted their 

 apjjarent hunger would doubtless have made 

 them easy prey for traps. 



From the living tents of the command to the 

 picket line where the horses were staked out, 

 was an open space of about fifty yards, and 



