. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. its and voice fromthose of the Eocky Mom i -tains; it is less noisy and less often heard in the middle of the day, forwhich reason it is more apt to escape detection, and its common note,instead of the usual bleat, is a loud shrill eh^ eJi, or e/i eh eh\ Itseems to be most active in the late afternoon and on moonlight even-ings, and its voice is heard at all hours of the night. On most mountains where conies live, their well known accumula-tions of plants of various kinds, cut and piled on the rocks to dry, areconspicuous objects. B
. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. its and voice fromthose of the Eocky Mom i -tains; it is less noisy and less often heard in the middle of the day, forwhich reason it is more apt to escape detection, and its common note,instead of the usual bleat, is a loud shrill eh^ eJi, or e/i eh eh\ Itseems to be most active in the late afternoon and on moonlight even-ings, and its voice is heard at all hours of the night. On most mountains where conies live, their well known accumula-tions of plants of various kinds, cut and piled on the rocks to dry, areconspicuous objects. But on Shasta, where I often saw the animalscarrying freshly cut plants to their dens in the slide rock, I failed tofind a single haystack. In one place a few fresh stems of Polygonnmnewherryi, with its large broad leaves, were seen, and in another a largeaccumulation of old brown leaves of the same species mixed with a largerquantity of Ihyllodoce empetriformis—apparently left over from theprevious year. But the only real haystack found on the mountain by. Fio. 33.—Rock cony (Ochotona (?cliUtice^is)—Pliotograidied byr. SteplifiLS. 100 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 16. any of the party was discovered on the east side of Gray Butte Septem-ber 25 by Aenion liailey. It contained Epllohinmxiricnium. IloUxlisrusdiscolor^ ^fonardeUa , llurnrium /mrrithdii, Ccfoiothns velii-tinus, and two species of grass. The bulk of the material was JJpilo-hiuni and Monardclla. On the west slope of (roose Nest Mountain, just east of Little ShastaValley, Walter K. Fisher Ibund conies common in an area of slide rockwhich extends in a ])ractically unbroken stretch from the toj) to thebottom of the mountain. I have not seen the specimens. Lepus nuttalli iiachman. Sagebrush Cottontail. Several seen and two secured by W. H. Osgood in the sagebrush inShasta and Little Shasta valleys, near the north base of the mountain. Lepus klamathensis sp. nov. Klamath liabbit. Ttij)( from I(irt Klaiuatl
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