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Ovis canadensis Shaw. Bighorn; Mountain Sheep. 
The bighorn no longer inhabits Shasta, but its bleaching bones still 
remain. In early days, and as late as the seventies, many were killed 
here by J. H. Sisson, of Sisson Tavern. Sheep Rock, at the northeast 
base of the mountain, was one of their favorite and latest resorts, but 
probably was not used during the breeding season. In 1868 George 
B. Mitchell saw a band of twenty near the head of Mud Creek Canyon. 
In 1883 C. H. Townsend found numbers of their horns aud bones scat- 
tered about everywhere on Sheep Rock, and saw the complete skeleton 
of a bighorn at the foot of Mud Creek glacier, high up on Shasta. An 
old skull was found on Red Butte by Vernon Bailey during our stay. 
Canis lestes Merriam. Mountain Coyote. 
Common high up on the mountain, frequenting the pumice slopes 
above timberline, where their tracks were often seen. Coyotes were 
especially common east of Mud Creek Canyon, where R. T. Fisher 
saw two early in August. As no specimens were secured, the species is 
uncertain, but since C. lestes is the animal inhabiting the Sierra farther 
south and (in a somewhat less typical form) the Klamath country farther 
north, it is assumed to be the mountain coyote of Shasta. 
Canis ochropus Esch. Valley Coyote. 
Common in Shasta valley and also at Sisson. R.T. Fisher heard them 
nearly every night during his stay at Sisson, from the end of August 
until the middle of September; and about the end of September Ver- 
non Bailey and W. H. Osgood heard them howl at night in the south 
end of Shasta valley. A little farther north, in the flat valley near 
‘Montague, I saw a highly colored one at close quarters in the day time 
August 31. In July, 1899, Walter K. Fisher secured one in Shasta 
Valley. 
Vulpes macrourus Baird. Mountain Red Fox. 
Common on the upper slopes above timberline, where fresh tracks 
were seen nearly every day; but the animals were very wary and refused 
to enter our traps. 
Urocyon californicus townsendi subsp. nov. Townsend Gray Fox. 
Type from Baird, Shasta County, Calif. No. 14130, U. 8. Nat. Museum. Collected 
November 11, 1893, by C. H. Townsend. Orig. No. 49. 
Characters.—Similar to U. californicus Mearns, but ears decidedly 
smaller; fulvous tints everywhere darker and richer; rostrum broader; 
zygomata broader anteriorly; carnassial teeth above and below, larger 
and thicker. The color of the upperparts and tail is grizzled gray and 
black, as in californicus, but the fulvous of the ears, legs, and under- 
parts is very much darker and somewhat more extensive. The sides of 
neck and posterior part of throat are rufous, in sharp contrast with the 
restricted white of the chin and anterior part of throat; the ears are 
