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a grouse which was probably female of the spruce partridge, not identified; the Canada jay & flocks of snowbirds. ^[[also a small hawk.]]

The heads of the gulches running toward the Skagit were inhabited by colonies of the hoary marmot whose whistle was heard constantly among the rocks. We saw numbers of them sitting erect at the mouths of their burrows or running from one to another. Their whistle is shrill and one of the calls so nearly resembles that of a man that when I first heard it, I answered, supposing it to be the signal of one of our men who was hunting.
  Notwithstanding the abundant pasturage on the prairie summits of the mountains on the Skagit, I saw no sight of deer. Bear appear to be scarce though they exist, both black and grizzly. The mountain goats, except in the running season would seem to confine them
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selves to particular localities.
  Aug. 8th creeper 5.S.2 3/4 (lost)
  "   Mouse. Extreme length 4 1/4; body 3 5/8; tail 5/8; hair 1/8; length head 1 1/8; to eye 3/8; to ear 7/8  2o summit. skin.
   Aug. 12th [[strikethrough]] Canada grouse a Spruce partridge: [[male symbol]] 16 1/4; 23 1/2; 7 1/4
   Aug 15. Mountain goat. Brought into Camp Skagit by Mr Custer, skinned except the head.
  Length of head over all. 13 1/2 in; nose to ear 10 1/2, height of ear 5 1/2 to inner caultius of eye 7 in; nostril to do. 5 1/2. - Injured- 
  Aug. 13. Trout, Skagit river. Length 12 3/4; head 2 3/8; to ventral 5 5/8; dorsal 5 3/4; to anal 8.
Back and sides nearly down to medial line with small spots of irregular shape, black on the back; on the sides blue with a black edge
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