Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-10

the snake, and soon he WAS inside a tin can which l carried for the purpose. When I reached my camp at night changed the white beauty from his tin home into far of alcohol, to be looked at and to become the wonder of scores who never before saw a white rattlssnake. I have seen many that were a light gray, al most white, but none just like my little beauty with Its five rsttles and button.
 The coyote of the west Is similar to the little prairie wolf of the east These that live In the valleys and on the plains are of 8 light gray color, at times changing to yellowish Gnge, while those that live in the mountains are all 8 very dark brown, Near Ensenada, In lower California, two of my men encountered a very large CO., vote which was marked with great spois of pure black and white. For several months he lived within two miles of town, hunting fish and mussels along the sea shore st low tide, usually living under & bridge on the wagon road that led to San Diego. I saw him few times near a. hand, when had no rifis with me, and once not more than fifty yards away, 60 that know that he was s full-blood CO., vote. A hundred miles further south, one day, l met, face to face, s coyote as black as the blackest dog I ever saw; in fact l thought 1t must be deg. Several times afterward I met the same one, or another just aa black. He was not afraid, and would stand and watch me and my mule thirty to fifty feet away. He would run If chased him, but stop when did, and follow me back 10 the spot where just ssw him. Two hundred miles further south saw two that were nearly white perhaps would have been 90 hsd they been wsshed up in good shape. As enc trsv- els to the southwsrd they grow bolder and more mischieyous.
 Two hundred miles a little west of south of Yuma, on the west aide of the Gulf of California, ss We were passing down Palm Canon on the gulf side of the Tens a range of mountains, and when In sight of the blue waters of the gulf, our mules suddenly stepped, and, look ing to the south, We saw seven white deer, as white ss any cow or horse one ever saw. They were sbout five hun dred yards away. We halted in the shade of the great canon and watched them for fifteen minutes or more. While doing so five mountain sheep psssed us few yards away, and, ascending the bench Of rocks where the deer still stood, they turned around as if to take look at us. We started on slowly, leading our mules, and had advanced more than half the distance that separated us when the deer moved of on slow trot and then on & walk, and passed around the point out of sight, while the mountain sheep mount ed crsg after crag, and peak after peak, until they were on the very summit of the range, three thousand feet above ue, where they turned around and watched us ss We went down the canon. A couple of miles brought us to 8 pool of water, where We camped for the night. Turning our mules loose to grszs, We stsr,ed up another ds-p canon near by, and when we had gone 6 couple of miles we spied over seven white deer only few feet in advance of us quietly feeding along the dry bed of what Having neither rifs nor pistol, we sat down aud watched them while they roamed here and there, selecting the sweetest nor sells of feed. Since that time tfour year agol the same band has been sern by twC other parties at different times, but in th, same section.
 As one goes south from Yuma or iron San Quentin, on the Pacific, all of ttt birds change colors. The black and yel low hawk are never ssen. All the hawks even the owls, change, or are The color o the morning dove-a purple or grRysst blue
 At Montague Island, one of the loveiIes places on the Pacific coast for an All.the year-round resort for health or pleasure white ducks, curlew aud snIps are found in great abundance Some of these ST, pure white, others have one, sonetimei two, black or gray feathers in each wing few have five or siI. The Colorado rivel turkeys are white with black feather ul two in each wing