1192 General Notes. [November, 
seals. Both of these habits I find to be mentioned by those who 
have observed the animal under motion. It is much to be re- 
gretted that the specimen did not live, as its presence in the same 
pond with specimens of three other North American seals, the 
common seal (Phoca vitulina), the California elephant seal (Macror- 
hinus angustirostris), and Gillespie’s hair seal (Zalophus californ- 
tanus), would have offered a rare opportunity for studying the 
moral differences of these species. It is curious to observe that 
the habit of floating perpendicularly, above referred to, is shared 
by it with the sea elephant, which it resembles in dentition, and 
quite strikingly in internal anatomy, the two genera forming a 
group quite apart in subordinate characters from the other Pho- 
cidæ” After the publication of this fact, Mr. J. A. Allen notes 
the capture of a crested seal (Cystophora cristata) on the coast of 
Massachusetts, claimed to be the first fully authenticated in- 
stance of the occurrence of any seal, except the common Phoca 
vitulina, upon the New England coast. The specimen was taken 
at Newburyport, and goes to the Charleston (S. C.) Museum, says 
Scientific and Literary Gossip. Mr. Henshaw states that 
West coast Sciurus fossor occurs east of the mountains, as does aiso — 
Spermophilus beecheyi. The latter occurs from Carson northward, 
and shows no sign of inter-gradation into the S. grammurus form 
of the central region. Lepus trowbridgii occurs also at Goose 
lake, east of the Sierras. The following note, by J. C. Hughes, 
of British Columbia, appears in Forest and Stream, and deserves to ; 
uoted in these Motes: “Again, wolves (Canis lupus ss : 
occidentalis) in the summer season live to a great extent on si 
numerous berries growing in this part of the world, gape 
surprise to many, as the wolf is generally considered to be stri d A 
carnivorous in its habits. I have not been fortunate enough ie 
see the animal myself in the act of feeding, but have b pit ; 
upon the most trustworthy statements of others who have Ol — 
so, and I have seen the excrement of wolves containing pot i 
amount of berry seeds, upon islands where there were noe a 
and where it was thus impossible for it to be theirs. * © ii 
know that the latter ever partake of this kind of ape bet olay 
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dead, and peels off in large pieces, leaving the so an 
with an exceedingly soft and sensitive covering. $: 
