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A HUNTER NATURALIST ON THE YUKON 
Continued from page 715. 
Of this experience Mr. Sheldon says that “this 
was a tiny cub, born the preceding winter, and 
•could have received no impressions of human 
beings from experience. It did not fear the sight 
of man, but the scent of man immediately in¬ 
spired it with terror.” 
An experience like this was had with a cow 
and calf moose which was printed a year or two 
ago in -Forest and Stream. Another similar ex¬ 
ample is given in the following sketch: “At 
three in the afternoon, when I came around a 
curve while Selous was a few hundred yards 
ahead, I saw a large black bear feeding high on 
the slope of a ridge which extended parallel with 
the river. Attracting Selous’ attention I has¬ 
tened forward and urged him to go after it since 
he had never before seen a wild bear in the 
wilderness.” The others tied up the canoes and 
watched the proceedings. “On the slopes of the 
ridge were many clear areas which had been 
given a reddish appearance by dwarf birch and 
huckleberry bushes, then colored by the frost. 
It was in one of these clear spaces that the bear 
was feeding. At intervals, between them, strips 
of dense timber and undergrowth several hun¬ 
dred feet wide extended down to the river. 
Selous started upward in a circle and soon we 
saw him climbing the ridge in one of the clear¬ 
ings where there was but one strip of timber 
between him and the bear, which continued to 
feed, gradually approaching the timber. Having 
marked well the spot where he had last seen the 
bear, he arrived at a point exactly opposite it 
and started directly toward the timber. His 
approach was then against the wind and he cau¬ 
tiously and slowly went forward. Through my 
glasses I could plainly see the bear as it ap¬ 
proached the woods directly in line with Selous’ 
advance. * * * Both Selous and the bear entered 
the timber at the same time, apparently approach¬ 
ing directly toward each other, and momentarily 
I expected to hear a shot. Soon we saw Selous 
emerge a little above where the bear had en¬ 
tered and proceed with caution, carefully looking 
about. We knew that he had not seen the bear. 
Afterward I learned that the timber was filled 
with small spruces, alders and dwarf birch, so 
that he could see only a few feet in any direc¬ 
tion. But he must have gone through noise¬ 
lessly and with skill, passing the bear within a 
hundred feet or so, for shortly after he ap¬ 
peared, the bear came out a little below the point 
where Selous had entered the timber and con¬ 
tinued traveling in the opposite direction, still 
feeding and wholly unconscious of its lucky es¬ 
cape. It fed along indifferently until it reached 
the trail which Selous had made when ascend¬ 
ing. Then it suddenly threw up its head, gave 
a great jump, and running with speed down the 
ridge disappeared in the timber.” Mr. Sheldon 
had seen in Mexico a bear act in the same way 
when it crossed the fresh trail of a man, and 
Mr. Stimson has recorded the same thing for 
New Brunswick. There are many records of 
horned animals acting in this way, one of the 
earlier being of buffalo crossing a man’s trail, 
told of in the diary of Alexander Henry the 
younger, more than one hundred years ago. 
On the north fork of the MacMillin River in 
the Selwyn Rockies were found white sheep— 
as white as those of the Ogilvie Rockies—fol¬ 
lowed by black lambs—as dark as Ovis stoni. 
Selous reported two ewes followed by four 
lambs, three of which were white and one black. 
On the following day Mr. Sheldon himself saw 
a white ewe accompanied by a black lamb. This 
was but the beginning of the information gained 
as to the way in which the Dali sheep and Stone 
sheep appear to run into one another through 
the Fannin sheep and by all possible gradations. 
The Rocky Mountain sheep is not found in that 
Northern country, but the white, the black and 
Fannin sheep occur and in great numbers, as 
most interestingly set forth in the author’s re¬ 
marks on pages 299 to 321. The colored map, 
which shows the distribution of the different 
forms and the series of nine figures illustrating 
the gradations of color in sheep from white to 
very dark—brown or almost black—are illumi¬ 
nating. 
Hunter, naturalist, sportsman and enduring 
traveler, Mr. Sheldon is what often goes with 
these characteristics—-an ardent lover of nature 
and has the gift of being ab'e to convey to his 
readers something of what he sees and feels. 
Of an evening walk he says: “It was full 
moonlight. The wind had stopped, the sky was 
clear, and the woods were hushed and still. Now 
and then a duck quacked; more often a muskrat 
splashed, and everywhere I saw the silvery rip¬ 
ples of the water as they swam about. The 
border of ice attached to the shore glittered in 
the soft light and the crystal waters of the lake 
mysteriously reflected the massive form of Mt. 
