The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those (14574807427)

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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857

Year: 1859 (1850s)

Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ng party, that they are found as far east as theDevils lake, (or Miniwakan,) a large salt lake in the northwestern part of Minnesota. InCalifornia they are very abundant, and, in San Francisco, at the menagerie, I have seen nearlya dozen at a time. They were quite tame; even the largest performed various amusing trickswith the readiness and intelligence of a New Foundland dog.—S. URSUS AMERICANOS, Pallas.Black Bear. Baikd, Gen. Eep. Mammals, 1857, 225. The common black bear is quite abundant throughout the wooded portions of Oregon andWashington Territories. In the latter they are especially abundant in the timbered districtsnear the coast. I obtained at Fort Steilacoom several fine skins of adults, and one very perfectskin of a cub, which was presented me by my kind friend Dr. J. B. Webber. Their habitsseem indentical with those of their brethren east of the Rocky mountains. In the Chinook jargon this animal is called itshoot. U S P R REx & S^lr\eTs 4^ Parallel Mammals Plate VE

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JHBichaid del E.Kirt^.ri-tJ-ic ZOOLOGY. 121 SCIURUS FOSSOR. Peale. Western Gray Sqnirrel. Sciurutfossor, Peale, Mamm. and Birds, U. S. Ex. Ex., 1848, 55.Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 264.(For description and measurements see Suclileys partial Report, chapter 2, p. 95.) Immense numbers of the California gray squirrel exist on the Klamath river. They frequentoak groves, and the neighborhood of the bay-leaved juglans.—G. Concerning this species I have nothing to add to what is written on page 95. It has appa-rently not crossed the Cascade mountains to the west, in Oregon, and it is a matter of somedoubt whether the species is found at all in Washington Territory.—S. NoTK.—Mr. Gibbs, in a letter to me, says that he has seen in a cage, tamed, a gray freesquirrel, not the >S. fossor, but smaller, which had been brought from California. He sawanother dead, lying on the ground in the Willamette valley.—S. In 1853, when decending the Flathead river, a tributary of Clarks Fork of t

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