92 MAMMALS OF UTAH 



A porcupine grunts, sniffs, squeaks, whines, chatters, 

 mews and even shrieks or cries like a child. One that I 

 killed near the Ensign ward church building in Salt Lake 

 City groaned exactly like an old man when it died. 



The nest of the porcupine, with its very poor bed, may 

 be found in a hollow tree or log, a hole under a rock or 

 under the roots of a tree, or in the deep crevice of a low, 

 overhanging rocky ledge. 



Little is known of the marriage relations of the porcu- 

 pine. Mating takes place in September or October, and the 

 father takes no interest in the offspring. The young, usu- 

 ally two in number, born early in May, are monstrous in 

 size. According to Merriam they are "actually larger and 

 relatively more than thirty times larger than the young of 

 the black bear at birth." 



Clumsy and slow on the ground, the porcupine is ex- 

 ceedingly sluggish in a tree, frequently pottering for days 

 on a single branch, and closely resembling a magpie's nest 

 all the while. On account of its hollow quills, it easily floats 

 in the water and thus paddles great distances. 



Family OCHOTONIDAE 



CINNAMON CHIEF HARE 



OCHOTONA CINNAMOMEA (Allen) 



Ociiotona cinnamomea Allen, Bull. Brookl. Inst. Arts and Scien, 

 I, No. 5, 1905, p. 121. 



Description — Color : Above pale cinnamon rufous, var- 

 ried with black on dorsal region ; sides dull cinnamon ; top of 

 head and ijape gray tinged with buff; hairs tipped with 

 black ; under parts grayish washed with buff ; ears blackish 

 externally, narrowly edged with white; inside grayish 

 dusky ; fore feet above buffy gray, soles silvery gray ; hinS 

 feet soles black. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this species is Briggs 

 meadow, Beaver range, Beaver county, Utah, at an alti- 

 tude of 11,000 feet. The extent of its range is not known. 



S. B. Locke says that they are found in the LaSal 

 mountains at about 9,000 feet elevation. 



Habits — The pika, little chief hare or cony, as it is 

 variously named, is about the size and shape of a small 



