808 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST, 
“The different colours of the pelage of this 
animal, but for the uniformity of its extraor- 
dinary claws, would puzzle any one not ac- 
quainted with its form, for it varies from jet 
black in the young of the first and second win- 
ter to the hoary gray of age, or of summer.” 
In Townsend’s “ Narrative of a Journey across 
the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, 
2t¢.,” we find two adventures with the grizzly 
sear. The first is as follows: The party were 
on Black Foot river, a sinall, stagnant stream 
which runs in a northwesterly direction down a 
valley covered with quagmires, through which 
they had great difficulty in making their way. 
“As we approached our encampment, near a 
small grove of willows on the margin of the 
river, a tremendous grizzly bear rushed out up- 
on us. Our horses ran wildly in every direc- 
ion, snorting with terror, and became nearly 
anmanageable. Several balls were instantly © 
fired into him, but they only seemed to increase 
his fury. After spending a moment in rending 
each wound, (their invariable practice,) he select- 
ed the person who happened to be nearest, and 
darted after him, but before he proceeded far he 
was sure to be stopped again by a ball from 
another quarter. In this way he was driven 
about amongst us for perhaps fifteen minutes, 
at times so near some of the horses that he 
