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San Lucas, the first of 

 January, one of the vil- 

 lagers brought me the 

 body of one of the skunks, 

 which had entered the 

 open door of his house 

 the preceding night and 

 bitten his little girl 

 through the lip. The child 

 was brought to me the 

 next day and the two 

 marks where the skunk's 

 canines had pierced the 

 lip were already healing 

 without inflammation. I 

 have no further knowl- 

 edge of the outcome in 

 this case, but was told of 

 the death of one of the 

 men of the village the pre- 

 vious year from a similar 

 bite. 



FRIENDLY QUAIL, AND 

 RAVENOUS GULLS 



Doves and California 

 Valley quail were numer- 

 ous the entire length of 

 the peninsula, their pres- 

 ence always indicating the 

 vicinity of permanent 

 water. One of the most 

 attractive sights about our 

 camps at desert water- 

 holes was the trooping in 

 of these birds to drink. 

 They were so unaccus- 

 tomed to man and his 

 ways that they were en- 

 tirely unafraid, and after 

 drinking the quail stood 

 quietly preening their 

 plumage, or moved care- 

 lessly about, uttering- little 

 subdued call-notes to one 

 another. 



Hawks, woodpeckers, 

 jays, ravens, fly-catchers, 

 cardinals, mocking-birds, 

 cactus wrens, and other 

 small birds enlivened the 

 desert and were abundant 

 about some of the culti- 

 vated oases. A desert 



