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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 
GENERAL NOTES 
A FOX ASSOCIATING WITH MOUNTAIN SHEEP ON THE KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA 
In the fall of 1912, Morris L. Parrish and Wilson Potter, both well known 
sportsmen in Philadelphia, made a hunting trip to the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 
In a sumptions folio volume Mr. Parrish privately published his diary of this 
trip and illustrated it with two hundred and nine photographs. The title is: 
‘ 'Hunting on The Kenai Peninsula A Daily Diary Illustrated with Some Photo- 
graphs By Morris L. Parrish, Philadelphia, Pa.; 1913. Privately Printed.’’ 
This is an extremely interesting record of the trip and the game. Since but few 
copies were issued and therefore the observations recorded will never be easily 
available to naturalists, it seems worth while to record in the Journal of Mam- 
malogy an unusual sight witnessed by Mr. Parrish and his guide, H. E. Revell, 
who was indicated as the "Colonel.” 
In the mountains about the divide between Tustamena Lake and the Kenai 
River, Mr. Parrish on the date mentioned killed a ram. The following quotation 
follows this event: "September 18, 1912 We went right on thinking 
there might be some more sheep in a gulch further down, and here we saw what 
the Colonel said was a most remarkable and un-heard-of sight. Three rams were 
on the side of a hill, walking along in single file, and a cross fox was walking with 
them, he jumping up and biting their faces in play, and they butting him gently 
along in front. When they lay down he lay down too, and they were evidently 
travelling together, and the best of friends. We watched them for fully 15 min- 
utes through the glasses at about 300 yards. There was another ridge, some 200 
yards further on, and we crawled along this, but when we reached it the rams had 
disappeared. We saw the fox some distance off, but could not find the sheep 
again ” — Charles Sheldon, Washington, D. C. 
A WOLVERINE IN A TREE 
In connection with the recent notes by Dr. George Bird Grinnell on the ability 
of the wolverine to climb trees I would like to call attention to a photograph of 
one in a tree which was published in the National Geographic Magazine, vol. 29, 
May, 1908, p. 353. The picture was taken in October, 1907, in Big Horn County, 
Wyoming, by Alan D. Wilson, who says: "The photo is I think almost unique 
for they are not only rare, but generally prefer to go over the rimrock than tree 
when chased.” — N. A. Wood, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 
A MONGOOSE IN KENTUCKY 
On December 20, 1920, a mammal received for identification by the United 
States National Museum, during the absence of Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., curator 
of mammals, was referred to me for determination. The specimen consisted of 
a cased skin, with the feet, tail, and anterior portion of the snout attached, 
including most of the maxillary and mandibular teeth. It was an adult mongoose, 
Herpestes griseus E. Geoffro 3 ^. The animal had been trapped by Mr. Thomas 
May, November 18, 1920, in a field just on the edge of the village of Midway, 
