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cut away one side of the head near the base and eat the seeds. He was quite 
wasteful, spilling many of the seeds on the ground. He apparently attempted to 
eat only the seeds, but I could not be sure whether or not he cut off the seed plumes, 
though I think he did. 
Sciurus hudsonicus richardsoni. Richardson squirrel. — ^Few in yellow pines 
and in mixed yellow pines and Douglas spruces. 
Castor canadensis canadensis. Beaver. — April 14, 1918, fresh cuttings were 
noted on cottonwoods along Rattlesnake Creek. 
Lepus hairdii bairdii. Rocky Mountain snowshoe hare. — -.Tune 9, 1918, one 
was seen in Douglas spruce- western larch forest near Lo-lo Hot Springs. 
Sylvilagus nuttallii nuttallii. Washington cottontail. — One was seen October 
21, 1917, in brush along Rattlesnake Creek. — Lee R. Dice, Museum of Zoology, 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
SILK BUFFALO ROBES 
In the Journal for August, 1921, Mr. E. R. Warren of Colorado Springs, Colo- 
rado, asked for information in regard to a “silk buffalo’’ robe. Recently, while 
glancing through Volume 1 of Ernest Thompson Seton’s “Life Histories of North- 
ern Animals,” I found the following: p. 250; “The ‘Beaver robe’ was a rich brown 
with very fine fur, of these not more than one in ten thousand was found.” P. 283, 
quoted by Seton from C. E. Denny, Forest and Stream, May, 8, 1897, p 362: “The 
robe was nearly always of a cow, very fine and very light i Many explanations 
were given by hunters for this peculiar coat, and the right one was no doubt that 
given by Montana Indians — that it was caused by the constant licking of many 
animals in the herd, to which some motherless calf belonged, it having become the 
pet of the band, the animals testifying their liking in that manner.” Thinking 
this may interest other readers of the Journal, I am sending it on. — K. F. Bascom, 
Dept, of Zoology, University of Chicago, Chicago, III. 
