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RECREATION. 



placed the dog, laying our rifles beside him ; 

 and, each of us strapping a goat head to our 

 backs, were ready for the descent, the ac- 

 complishment of which I now recall as the 

 most exasperatingly hard bit of labor ever 

 undertaken by me. This may have been 

 Sam's opinion also, though in his case it 

 was a labor of love. He repeatedly refused 

 my request that the suffering of the poor 

 brute be ended with a bullet, insisting that 

 the dog would recover and, in fact, he did. 

 Though camp was reached without acci- 

 dent, the discomforts of the latter part of 

 the day's hunt were increased to a large 



degree by the rapidly rising wind, and the 

 simultaneous dropping of the mercury. 

 During the trip down, which consumed the 

 greater part of 2 hours, our enforced ac- 

 tivity prevented us from feeling the cold; 

 and, it seamed to both, on finally reaching 

 the tent that we had well earned a long 

 night's rest. 



A few days later we started on our re- 

 turn to Ketchikan, and for nearly a mile, 

 were obliged to chop a passage in the ice, 

 for our boat. The town was reached just 

 in time to dine with my brother and friends, 

 aboard his yacht, on Thanksgiving Day,. 



A CURIOSITY FROM ECUADOR. 



DR. S. A. DAVIS. 



In almost every flock of sheep on the 

 Inter-Andean plains of Ecuador may be 

 found rams having more than the usual 

 pair of horns. Rams with 3 or 4 horns 

 are common. I have been told of some 

 having 5 or 6, but have never seen them. 

 The arrangement of these horns is varied. 

 The upper pair, when there are 2, occupy 

 the usual position on the skull ; the lower 

 pair are placed close below and slightly be- 

 hind the bases of the first. The upper pair 

 lack usually the twist of normal horns ; 

 curving upward and outward, or arching 

 downward. The lower pair usually take a 

 downward curve to form almost half-cir- 

 cles. Where there are 3 horns, a vertical, 

 spikelike horn rises centrally between the 

 downward curving lower pair. I have, 

 again, seen all 3 horns curving forward, 

 so that, if the growth continued, the points 

 would terminate, the one above somewhere 

 back of the nostrils, and those laterally 

 placed, near the angles of the mouth. The 

 local name is ingo ; plural ingos. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. A. McL. 

 Miller, one of the civil engineers of the 

 Guayaquil and Orento railway company, I 

 am enabled to send you a photograph of a 

 4-horned domestic ram of Ecuador. The 

 head having been cleaned of all soft parts 

 and otherwise prepared for mounting, it 

 lacks natural proportions, as well as that 

 preoccupied expression assumed just be- 

 fore launching himself at some unsuspect- 

 ing person's unguarded rear. However, as 

 the purpose is only to show the 4 horns, 

 the absence of other features needs no 

 criticism. Rams are found here having 5 

 and even 6 horns, but such horns are 

 usually dwarfish, abortive and asymmetri- 

 cal, as if Nature had planned a piece of 

 work which she could not afterward well 

 perform. The cropping of one ear is the 

 owner's mark. The removal of the taps 



from the upper pair of horns shows the 

 ram to have been brave or gifted with more 

 push than was considered desirable. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY DR. S» A. OAVIS 



DOMESTIC RAM OF ECUADOR. 



Larvae, called the dobson, or alligator, are 

 common in the cooler streams of Ecuador, 

 and the mature insects are well known. 

 What seems to me an anomaly is the pupa- 

 tion and emergence of the imago from the 

 earth, as I had always been led to believe 

 that this part of its life history took place, 

 if not in the water, at least in close prox- 

 imity. I saw lately an imago of this in- 

 sect, just emerged from the pupa case, 

 which I pulled from its hole in the ground, 

 at the foot of a ledge of rocks. If the 

 larva had crawled there to undergo pupa- 

 tion, it must have crawled up the steep side 

 of a railway embankment, across the grade 

 to where the ledge stopped its progress, 

 and buried itself in the little dirt it found, 

 a distance from the stream of about 50 feet. 



