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CHAPTER VL 
ZOOLOGY. 
§ 86. General List.—Among the indigenous animals of Cal- 
ifornia are the grizzly bear; the black bear; the panther, the 
wild-cat; the gray wolf; the coyote; three foxes; the badger; 
the raccoon; the opossum; the mountain-cat; the weasel; two 
skunks; one porcupine; three squirrels; two spermophiles ; 
two ground-squirrels; three rats; three jumping-rats; one 
jumping-mouse ; nine mice; one mole; the elk; one deer; 
one antelope ; the mountain-sheep ; three hares; two rabbits; 
the seal; the sea-otter; the sea-lion; the beaver; two vul- 
tures; the golden eagle; the bald eagle; the fishhawk; 
eighteen other hawks; nine owls; the road-runner; twelve 
woodpeckers ; four humming-birds; eleven flycatchers; one 
hundred and nine singers; one pigeon; two doves; three 
grouse; three quails; one sandhill crane; forty-one waders; 
sixty-six swimmers, including two swans and five geese; about 
two dozen snakes, including the rattlesnake; half a dozen sal- 
mon; two codfish; and one mackerel. : 
§ 87. Bears.—The grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis) is the 
largest and most formidable of the quadrupeds of California. 
He grows to be four feet high and seven feet long, with a 
weight, when very large and fat, of two thousand pounds, be- 
ing the largest of the carnivorous animals, and much heavier 
than the lion or tiger ever get to be. The grizzly bear, how- 
ever, as ordinarily seen, does not exceed eight hundred or 
nine hundred pounds in weight. In color the body is a light 
grayish-brown, dark brown about the ears and along the ridge 
of the back, and nearly black on the legs. The hair is long, 
