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merely to remark that at the western base of the Coeur 
‘Alefie Mountains, I saw two shrews in one day running 
swiftly over some of the gigantic prostrate logs of arborvite. 
The day was dark and damp, as is said to be the common 
climate of that region, and this being the only occasion when 
I saw any of these animals, during the journey, they had 
probably been enticed out by the weather. The locality is 
remarkable for these animals, being about 4500 feet above 
the sea. 
Gray Woxr (Canis occidentalis). The Gray Wolf was 
rarely heard or seen. 
_ Corore (Canis latrans Say). The Coyote was more com- 
n, but none were killed. 
Orrer (Lutra Canadensis). Signs were observed; en- 
tirely a cross of this or Z. Californica, or both, as they are 
probably identical. 
‘Baperr ( Taxidea Americana). Burrows seen everywhere. 
_ Grizzty Bear ( Ursus horribilis). None were seen by the 
party west of Fort Benton, though some below, and the 
Falls of the Missouri is mentioned, by Lewis and Clarke, as 
a great resort of this animal. But few tracks were seen, 
nsequently we may suppose it to be rare in the northern 
mountains, which are almost everywhere densely timbered ; 
ind it seems equally scarce in the Great Plain of the Colum- 
bia, north of latitude 46°, which is hemmed in on three sides 
by wooded mountains. Some, however, are doubtless found 
on the eastern range of the Rocky Mountains. 
_ PLACK Bear ( Ursus Americanus). Some bear-meat, ob- 
tained at “Hell Gate,” was of this species, which is said by 
the residents there to be very common, and I frequently 
ñaw its tracks in the thick woods, which seem to be avoided 
the Grizzly Bear. 
[A N’S SQUIRREL (Sciurus Richardsonit). I saw 
no true Squirrel in the eastern Rocky Mountains, though 
Pines were abundant enough to supply them food, but from 
the vicinity of Hell Gate, westward, even to the summit of 
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