THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 75 
greater force to the black-tail (Cervus Columbianus Rich), and 
the cotton tailed deer (C. leucurus Douglas), the prong-horn 
antelope (Antilocapra Americana Ord), and particularly to the 
mule deer (Cervus macrotis Say) which is occasionally met in this 
region. I might also add, with equal propriety, the mountain 
sheep or big horn (Ovis montana Cuvier) and the various game 
members of the Rodentia, as well as, in fact, all the game birds of 
this region, including the ducks, geese, grouse, ete. 
The mallard (Anas boschas Linn.) is the only bird of antiquity 
included in this fauna, remains of this species having been taken 
from the principal lake dwellings of Switzerland. 
There are numerous other animals which might be included in 
this protective scheme, without interfering in the least with any 
plans for the best improvement of the park, and, what is, perhaps, 
of as much importance to our practical friends to whose influence 
we must look for its furtherance, without any serious addition to 
the burden of expense.* All of these animals are more or less 
*The following partial list comprises only the more important of the mammals and 
birds observed by myself during the past summer came of those already men- 
tioned), with some few additions from the report of Mr. C. H. Merriam, Zoologist of 
me Pre ee ie 1n s pe Foss Jan ote expedition of 1872, in order to include a 
ALS. 
Felis concolor Linu.—Cougar: Feber ve : Catamount A ga Gray Woli. 
-. ĵ Var. griseo a —Wh 
a occidentalis, Í var AnA Say- -Dnsky y Wolf. 
y rie 
Taridea Americana Wa Waterh—Ame rican Badger, 
Ursus Americanus Pala 1 re 
-Prai 
Cynomys GOIN D: oa, er Tailed Br airie ies 
Aretonms Ravi viventer Bach.—Y eliow-footed Marm 
Fiber zi ‘hicus Cuvier. vier.—Muskrat 
Brinicen ¢ pe paint Brandt. cllow-hairea Porcupine: 
Lepus Townsend endit Bach.—Jackas' ares 
‘dit Haye Gray Rabi. Rabbit. (“One very curious fact relating to Tapa 
orn dii fs that al ‘he mates hove tenia and eh ah 
ERRIAM.) I have never me ht Wapiti 
TTO i ene Elk; Wap 
1 k; hence this 
meena duties were too pressing to alow of any ornithologieal wor ; 
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