ties of foxes glide noiselessly through the 

 low bushes, unscared by hounds and men. 

 Badgers spread their wide bodies to catch 

 the genial rays of the sun. Beautifully 

 colored living marmots, or "rock chucks" 

 (Arctomys flaviventer) run ahead of your 

 team along the rocky roadsides, or peep at 

 you from their fantastic castles, built of 

 snowy geyserite deposited by geysers ex- 

 tinct ages ago. The yellow porcupine 

 (Erethizon expixanthus) gnaws content- 

 edly at his favorite food. Cotton tails, 

 snow shoes and jack rabbits fear 

 none but their natural wild enemies, 

 and little chief hares abound in the 

 slide rock. Along the dusty roads 

 big golden chipmunks and little 4- 

 striped chipmunks play and scold 

 passing teams. These creatures are so 

 tame they do not hesitate to enter your 

 tent, and they live royally on grain stored 

 in the Transportation Companies' stables. 

 From the woods by the roadside the beau- 



tiful mule deer and rarer white tailed 

 deer gaze with innocent curiosity at stage 

 loads of tourists, never suspecting that, but 

 for an intangible thing called law, these 

 people would be their bloodthirsty enemies. 

 Moose wander in the forest glades at the 

 Southern boundary of the Park, and scat- 

 tered over Hayden valley 30,000 to 60,000 

 magnificent elk roam free. 



Recent discoveries of the remains of pre- 

 historic animals, which once inhabited the 

 far West, and which have been so beauti- 

 fully illustrated by Charles R. Knight, 

 should make us put a rare value on exist- 

 ing species. The 2-ton, 4-horned rhinoce- 

 rus (Unitathere), the ungainly, water-lov- 

 ing Metamynodon, the strange, horse-like 

 rhinoceros (Hyracodon), the diminutive 

 4-toed horse (Hyracothere), the giant pigs 

 (Elothere), and the hobgoblin deer with 

 tusks and 6 horns (Protoceras), are a few 

 samples of the nightmare creatures whose 

 grotesque forms populated the hills and 



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