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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. I.—AUGUST, 1867.—No. 6. 
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THE QUADRUPEDS OF ARIZONA. 
BY DR. ELLIOTT COUES, U. S. A. 
Tue wild and primitive region which constitutes the 
Territory of Arizona exhibits a remarkable diversity of 
surface in its mountain ranges, grassy plains, and desert 
wastes; and its Fauna and Flora are varied in a corre- 
sponding degree. The traveller meets, at each successive 
day’s journey, new and strange objects, which must inter- 
est him, if only through the wonder and astonishment 
they excite. In every department of Natural History 
there is ample field for observation and study ; and even 
at this late day, opportunities for discoveries in Zoölogy 
and Botany. First in importance, as they are also in 
general interest to the observant traveller, are undoubt- 
edly to be ranked the quadrupeds of the country; and 
So savage and unreclaimed is its condition, that they are 
there to be seen in what is truly a state of nature. Their 
habits, and even their numbers have been as yet scarcely 
Subjected to modifying influences by contact with civili- 
zation; and he must be stolid indeed, who, under such 
rarely favorable circumstances, does not look about him 
Court of the District of Massachusetts, 
Cenutered a oprding to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by the ESSEX INSTITUTE, in the 
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