276 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
pair of brown bears wandered from the Cascade Mountains and a family 
of brown bears were reared on a section of this immense desert. The 
old ones may have been killed, or, in any event, passed away, leaving the 
young to breed later, and generation after generation the race has been 
feebly perpetuated, largely through inbreeding in this dry, waste coun- 
try, with no water and meagre forage, until they have dwarfed to their 
present size, and would. ultimately become extinct. 
Teddy was killed this year, sometime in May, by one of O, T. 
McKendree’s sheep men, at the time presumed to ‘be a cub, However, 
after a careful search for the mother and an examination of the sup- 
posed cub, he was found to be an old bear. Mr. McKendree then had 
the specimen carefully mounted and he is now perched on a showease 
in A. L. Therton’s drugstore, Lakeview, Ore., and will later be taken 
to McKendree’s home in Oakland, Cal., where he may be viewed by 
naturalists and others. 
This little bear looks just like any other bear, with the exception 
of his size and color, His hair has the appearance of wool more than 
hair, and its color is of a light buckskin cast. He is gray around the 
nose and his teeth and claws are worn. 
It is believed that the state should make an effort to secure some 
live specimens of these bears, for without a doubt others interested 
will immediately begin trying to secure these rare specimens. I believe 
the state should get busy and add a new chapter to the natural history 
of Oregon. 
Who can tell what may yet be found in Oregon? 
IN OREGON AND CALIFORNIA 
By WM. H. DEPEW, in Sports Afield. 
HILE the larger portion of Oregon has been settled for more than 
V¢ 40 years, there are still some parts of the state that are seldom 
visited by man where the game birds and animals are as plentiful 
as they were a century ago. In Stein’s Mountains in Harney County 
several thousand antelope stil remain, also some big horn sheep. 
Alfred Shelton, a collector for the Univ ersity of Oregon, has just 
returned from a trip that covered over 700 miles through Crook, Harney 
and Lake counties. He was accompanied by W. A. Kuykendall, a drug- 
gist of Eugene, Ore., whose hobby is bird collecting. While most of the 
mammals had gone into winter quarters, they however succeded in get- 
ting about 100 specimens. Among the rare ones were a kinglet, a small 
yellow brown desert bird; four pigmy rabbits, the smallest known mem- 
bers of the rabbit family; a number of desert magpies and a couple of 
specimens of the yellow-headed blackbird, a species found in the pine 
and juniper groves of the mountain districts. 
Antelope are still plentiful in the meadow lands of Southern Ore- 
gon and Northeastern California. The writer has seen a small drove every 
summer for the past ten years in Siskiyou County, in the neighborhood 
of Bray Station. They graze in the meadows with the eattle but are 
excedingly shy and are off like a shot on the approach of a man or dog. 
The eastern portion of Siskiyou County is perhaps one of the least 
frequented parts of California today. Big game abounds in this rugged 
country. Here are antelope, elk, black and cinnamon bear, mountain 
lions, timber wolves and ‘three different varieties of deer. A great deal 
of fur is trapped here every winter. 
