NOTES ON MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
IN THE VICINITY OE EORT SNELLING,MINNESOTA. JUNE 1st to 
JULY 6th,1888. 
Lynx rufus."WILDCATS" are said to be common hereabouts,living in 
brushy woods. 
Canis lupus . GRAY WOLE. MR. LeClair saw one in the Minnesota 
River bottom,on the post reservation,last Avinter. Mr. 
Trapp,a farmer living two miles east of Eort Snelling,across the 
Minnesota River, tells me that the wolves have recently 
interfered greatly with sheep raising in his neighborhood 
, ,having killed nearly all of the sheep kept by himself 
and his neighbor,last winter. The wolves are most 
troublesome in cold winters,when the are hard up;then th^y 
prowl around the brushy edges of the timber,in the vicin¬ 
ity of fa?m-houses,often playing familiarly with dogs. They app¬ 
ear to fully understand the significance of the gun,and 
depart instantly on sight of one, or of any suspicious 
movements on the part of man. Mr. Trapp tried in vain 
to inveig^le them into taking poisoned baits,and only 
succeeded in killing his own shephard dog; the wolves 
would not touch it. When driving along lonely roads , 
one often runs upon one crossing the highway,between 
two bits of woodland,but they are both sneaking and shy, 
save when driven to extremities by cold and hunger. 
