. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. m 140 AUDUBON. could be done, on this costly expedition. The young Buffaloes now about the fort have begun shedding their red coats, the latter-colored hair dropping off in patches about the size of the palm of my hand, and the new hair is dark brownish black. August 0, IVcduesday. The weather is cool and we are looking for rain. Squires, Provost, and La Flcur went off this morning after an early breakfast, across the river for Bighorns with orders not to return without some of those wild animals, which reside i
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. m 140 AUDUBON. could be done, on this costly expedition. The young Buffaloes now about the fort have begun shedding their red coats, the latter-colored hair dropping off in patches about the size of the palm of my hand, and the new hair is dark brownish black. August 0, IVcduesday. The weather is cool and we are looking for rain. Squires, Provost, and La Flcur went off this morning after an early breakfast, across the river for Bighorns with orders not to return without some of those wild animals, which reside in the most inaccessible portions of the broken and lofty clay hills and stones that exist in this region of the country; they never resort to the low lands except when moving from one spot to another; they swim rivers well, as do Antelopes. I have scarcely done any- thing but write this day, and my memorandum books are now crowded with sketches, measurements, and descrip- tions. We have nine Indians, all Assiniboins, among whom five are chiefs. These nine Indians fed for three days on the flesh of only a single Swan; they saw no Buf- faloes, though they report large herds about their village, fully two hundred miles from here. This evening I caught about one dozen catfish, and shot a Spermophilus hoodii, an old female, which had her pouches distended and filled with the seeds of the wild sunflower of this region. I am going to follow one of their holes and describe the same. August 10, Thursday. Bell and I took a walk after Rabbits, but saw none. The nine Indians, having re- ceived their presents, went off with apparent reluctance, for when you begin to give them, the more they seem to demand. The horseguards brought in another Spermoph- ilus hoodii; after dinner we are going to examine one of their burrows. We have been, and have returned; the three burrows which we dug were as follows: straight downward for three or four inches, and gradually becom- ing deeper in an oblique s
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