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or thirty are left in the Escalante forest where they range 

 principally to the south and east. A. W. Jensen estimates 

 that fifty or more exist in the Uintah forest while E. C. 

 Shepard says there are about a hundred in Cache national 

 forest. I have found them at the head of City Creek canyon 

 only a dozen miles from Salt Lake City; and in 1917 a 

 hunter took seven out of the canyon just above Bountiful, 

 Davis County, Utah. I have also encountered them on 

 the mountains above Richmond, Cache County. They are 

 quite plentiful in Hardscrabble canyon just over the divide 

 from the head of City Creek Canyon above Salt Lake City. 

 In 1916 bounty was paid on 146 bears killed in the follow- 

 ing counties: Cache 7, Carbon 21, Duchesne 18, Emery 4, 

 Juab 2, Morgan 4, Summit 17, Uintah 14, Utah 29, Wasatch 

 15 and Weber 4. In 1915, 193 were killed as follows : Box 

 Elder 1, Cache 18, Carbon 6, Davis 2, Emery 7, Garfield 8, 

 Grand 7, Morgan 18, Rich 6, Salt Lake 3, San Pete 25, Sum- 

 mit 11, Uintah 15, Utah 21, Wasatch 28, Wayne 8, Weber 9. 



A mammoth black bear was killed near Heber City 

 several years ago by Isaac McDonald. It is said to have 

 weighed nearly 800 pounds ; and Mr. F. A. Wrathall of Salt 

 Lake City, who dressed the skin, found it to be larger than 

 any grizzly pelt he had ever worked on. 



S. B. Locke says that black bears occur at the head of 

 Pack Creek, Mill Creek and Castle Creek in La Sal national 

 forest; around Shay mountain and at the head of North 

 Cottonwood Creek in the Blue mountains. Several are 

 killed there every year. 



Black bear skins bring the hunter from $1.50 to $35.00 

 each; the brown skins, from $1.00 to $28.00 each, and the 

 cubs, from $1.00 to $20.00 each. 



Family PROCYONIDAE, Racoons, Coatis, etc. 

 Subfamily PROCYONINAE 



RACOON-FOX: RING-TAIL: CIVET FOX 



BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS (Lichtensteiti) 



Bassaris astuta Licht., Isis, 1831, p. 513. 



Bassariscus astutus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm. P. C. M. P. II, 

 1901, p. 316. 



Description — Body slender, elongate; muzzle pointed, 

 tail long, bushy; claws half retractile; skull long, slender; 

 postorbital process of frontal bone short; upper sectorial 

 with inner cusp much developed; anterior cusp of lower 



