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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
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own on the back, a little paler on the sides and onthe throat. A dorsal darker collar on throat, as dark as the sides. Region along central line of belly (rather narrowone) dull whitish, with dusky spots extending to lower part of sides. No spots or bands discernible on the upper part of sides.Ears black inside, with a very inconspicuous patch of grayish. Terminal third of tail above, black. The tiger cat of Lewis and Clark is very abundant in the forests of Washington Territory.The numbers that will resort to a farm yard, in a retired situation, for prey, is wonderful.One man told me that h.e had killed at his place, during one season, no less than fifteen, alarge herd of young pigs being the attraction. His dog, but little larger than the wild cats,would boldly attack them, and though sometimes severely scratched, always came off victor.All that I have seen were very thin, so that they probably do not find much food in their forest IT S, PH,.H-Ec& Si: Parallel L^LHiiaals Plate H
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B Met lotl c JKBichaid del ZOOLOGY—MAMMALS. 75 haunts, where the blue grouse must he the largest game they can capture. In the fall they,no doubt, feast, like many other animals, on the multitudes of dead salmon washed up on riverbanks. I only once saw one alive, which was walking along a fallen trunk of a tree, whose top layin the water, trying to get at a flock of half-fledged sheldrakes. It was so intent on the gamethat it did not notice our canoe silently and rapidly approaching it. The Indian in thebowstartled it from its pursuit by lodging a charge of buck-shot in its side. It fell into the water,but soon recovered and attempted to climb out again. A stroke of a paddle stunned it, but itwas sometime before it died, showing great tenacity of life. While travelling on the Columbia, I have heard in the densely forest clad mountains near its mouth, a loud screaming, answered from the hills around, which I was told was caused by the wildcat. This was always bt fire sunrise, and the

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