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Swallows
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Dr George Hammond, U. S. Army says that he watched the swallows (he thinks bank swallows) which built in the porches of the quarters at Fort Yuma & is satisfied that they swallow the mud of which they build their nests & pass it by the rectum, depositing it on the nests. He says they have certain times for feeding & working & do not feed during working hours. They were so numerous as to be a pest. They built in the corner of the rafters first, then other birds attached their nests to the corner afforded by the first & so on. Their houses were entirely closed except a small hole for the entrance. 
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Coyotes
Dr. H. examined a coyote killed at Fort Kearney, in the winter and found a mass of grasshoppers bugs in it birds several feet of rawhide rope swallowed hole and a piece

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of boot tie with his name on it which be had thrown out of the window a few days before. & which was folded up for swallowing. He had noticed the coyotes poking about among the grass which appeared among [[strikethrough]] the sm [[/strikethrough]] the snow and they seem to have been picking off dead grass hoppers. The animal in question was very fat.

The Indians reported to the officer that one of the mules captured by Kamiakan had dropped a foal -

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Humboldt, "Aspects of Nature" p 40 in error about the musk ox.
The buffalo does not necessarily go south in winter - retires to the forests at the foot of the mountains. He calls it "common to the northern parts of both continents"! Speaks of huge ox horns in ancient Mexi- 
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Transcription Notes:
It is Dr. H, not Dr. N. You can compare the Capital letters in other words to see this. Kamiakan may be Kamiakin??: http://wsm.wsu.edu/s/index.php?id=303