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Ear as long as the head; small intestines, about 6 feet 9 inches long; stomach about 3; coccum 
veiy long; ilium contained 4 taenio. — S. 
Note. — There are three species of hare said to occur in Oregon, to which I can gain no clue. 
These are the Lepus palustris, Lepus Nuttalii, and Lagomys princeps, or Little Chief Hare. 
The first of these, known in the Atlantic States as the 7narsh hare, is contained in Townsend's 
list of Oregon Mammals. Doctor T. was probably in error, mistaking the L. Washingtonii, or 
the present species, for it. — S. 
ALCE AMERICANA, Jardine. 
Moose. 
Baikd, Gen. Eep. Mammals, 1857, 631. 
I believe that moose are found west of the Rocky mountains, to the north, but do not think 
that they occur at present west of the Cascades, and it is even doubtful whether they formerly 
existed there, altliough I have heard of liorns of the species being found, but have never seen 
them. The Indians say that there is another large animal of the deer kind, not the elh, which 
is found in the timbered district between Puget Sound and the sea, on the Quinatt stream. 
Their statements cannot be much relied on. — G. 
Note. — I have obtained from Dr. Webber, of Steilacoom, a skull of an animal of the deer 
kind which the Indians say was formerly very plentiful, but now exterminated, and which they 
call in the Chimook jargon the mctssache maivitch, or bad deer. Several similar skulls have been 
obtained on the Steilacoom Plains. This skull was sent to Washington, but was unfortunately 
lost on the way. 
The carrihoo is said by the employes of the Hudson Bay Company to extend in the Rocky 
mountains as far south as the Kootenay country, which lies near the 49th parallel. — 0. 
It is said by the residents on Bellingham bay that the moose is found on the Nooksahk river. 
Perhaps the animal they refer to is the carriboo, or reindeer. I have never seen the horns of 
either in the vicinity of Puget Sound, except a pair of moose horns which I brought myself 
from another part of the country, which had been obtained in the most eastern part of Wash- 
ington Territory, near the St. Mary's valley, in the Rocky mountains. These I showed to a 
number of Indians about Fort Nisqtially, Puget Sound, who all appeared much astonished, and 
declared that they knew nothing about the animal. 
The same horns are now in the museum of the' Smithsonian Institution. I am told that moose 
are very common in the Rocky mountains near where these were obtained, and that they attain 
a very large size. — S. 
CERVUS CANADENSIS, Erxl. 
American Elk. 
Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 638. 
The elk extends throughout the mountainous timbered districts of Washington and Oregon 
Territories, and all the way down the coast to San Francisco. I suppose that the range of the 
species from the Rocky mountains to the Pacific has been by the line of the heavily timbered 
Cascade mountains. In the mountains west of Astoria they are as abundant as they were in 
the days of Lewis and Clark. 
Judge Ford, long a settler in Washington Territory, and an enthusiastic hunter, saj^s that 
the elk of the Pacific coast is not the elk of the "plains," but has a larger and coarser head. 
He has been, through life, familiar with game, and is j)osi7tue that they are different animals. — G. 
