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such trips. At this season of the year they 
are losing the brown and black feathers, 
that match so well the rocks and the foliage 
of the willow in summer, and feathers of 
snow white are replacing the dark ones so 
the birds will be the color of snow during 
the winter. In their variegated plumage 
they are a beautiful game bird; and to see 
a flock of them standing on the rocks, 
away up among the peaks, is a picture 
never to be forgotten. But in flight they 
are the most beautiful game bird I have 
ever seen. They do not fly as fsfst as a 
ruffed grouse or Virginia partridge, and 
their flight is much like that of a Hun¬ 
garian partridge. When in the open the 
hunter will only get one shot with the 
twenty-two before they take to wing, but 
when in the scrubby pine or willow brush 
they will hardly move and a good shot can 
kill them all. We found in them a most 
excellent change of meat, and I had four 
prepared for mounting by the taxidermist. 
But these birds are now so scarce there 
should be a prohibition of hunting them 
until they become more plentiful. 
Among these mountains one finds sev¬ 
eral varieties of excellent berries, such as 
blueberries, strawberries, currants, goose¬ 
berries, raspberries, service berries and 
many other varieties that were unknown 
to me. Wild flowers grow in profusion 
and some of them are very beautiful in 
color and dainty in form. Of unusual in¬ 
terest was a very low evergreen shrub 
having mosslike foliage. It grows above 
timberline in bleak places and bears deli¬ 
cate flowers. It is the only thing above 
timberline that will burn and the Indians 
use it to make fire for tea. The plant 
itself is very ordinary and grows through¬ 
out the colder parts of the north temperate 
zone, but the use to which it is adapted by 
these Indians is unusual. No one seemed 
to have a name for it so I sent a specimen 
to the Bureau of Plant Industry and am 
advised that it is the four-angled Cassiope. 
While we were hunting well up on the 
mountain one day one of the Indians found 
an interesting Indian skinning knife made 
of black obsidian and gave it to me. As a 
boy I often tramped the fields in search 
, of such relics and my interest in them has 
always been keen. A couple of years ago 
I was riding in Wyoming on the road to 
Yellowstone Park, near Jackson's Lake, 
and, to avoid any trouble between my 
broncho and a motor car, pulled to one 
side into a small borrow pit. Noticing a 
: sharp edge of black obsidian in the bank 
of the pit I got off the horse and kicked 
out a fine spear head such as the Indians 
made many years ago from the obsidian so 
plentiful in the Park region. General Chit¬ 
tenden in his book on the Park says that 
such implements of war and the chase 
were quarribd in the Park by the Indians 
at the Obsidian Cliff. Of course there 
is no connection between the spear head 
and the skinner except as showing that 
the Indians of Cassiar used the same 
implements as the Indians far to the south, 
because obsidian is found in Cassiar as it 
is in Wyoming and Montana. These in¬ 
cidents are related to illustrate the many 
things, other than hunting, that may stimu¬ 
late the interest of the big game hunter. 
The true sportsman who hunts or fishes in 
accordance with the highest traditions of 
sport can not fail to become somewhat of a 
naturalist as well. 
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