. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. In the trail between Wagon Camp and SquawCreek Camj) fresh tracks were seen August 4, by Vernon Bailey, andin Shasta Valley, at the north base of the mountain, badger holes werereported by W. H. Osgood, who also found a dead badger in the roada few miles east of McCloud occidentalis Baird. Large Skunk. Common in the low country around Shasta. On Horse Trail, lead-ing up the mountain from Sisson, Bailey saw their tracks as high asan altitude of G,500 feet. At Sisson they are particularly abundant inthe wet meadows an
. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. In the trail between Wagon Camp and SquawCreek Camj) fresh tracks were seen August 4, by Vernon Bailey, andin Shasta Valley, at the north base of the mountain, badger holes werereported by W. H. Osgood, who also found a dead badger in the roada few miles east of McCloud occidentalis Baird. Large Skunk. Common in the low country around Shasta. On Horse Trail, lead-ing up the mountain from Sisson, Bailey saw their tracks as high asan altitude of G,500 feet. At Sisson they are particularly abundant inthe wet meadows and thickets, where in September 11. T. Fisher caughttwo along Cold Creek. In Shasta Valley they are also common andseveral were cauglit by W. 11. Osgood and E. T. latifrons Merriam. I^ittle Spotted Skunk. Not obtained by us, but known to occur in the general neighborhoodof Shasta, both north and south of the mountain. In March, 1884,C. H. Townsend caught one on McCloud Eiver, about midway betweenthe mouth of this stream and Mount Shasta. WUJ. I II J4—Mirl (I)in\iilp\ Iiiifst> 1 lioiii])Mm ) Lutreola vison energumenos (Bangs). Pacific Mink. Common along the streams at Sisson, where E. T. Fisher caught two,one on Cold Creek, the other on the upper Sacramento —No. 1() 14 lOG NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 16. Mustela caurina Meniaiii. Tacific ^Nrartcn. Couiiuou ill parts of tlic douse forests of tSliasta, partieiilarly on theeast side, where many are caught every winter by trappers. A\e didnot su<(<ed in obtaining- a speciineii, althongli a line of meat trapswas k(i)t out fully a month. Still, frcsli tracks were seen in tlie mudalong kS(iuaw Creek a short distance below ciunj) by \ernoii iSailey.
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