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 80 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA cerning the laws governing each one the State Board of Agriculture, Sacramento, will give in- formation. Among the larger animals found are the brown and the black bear, the silver and the red fox, the wild goat, the Big Horn sheep, the lynx, the puma or mountain lion to whose ferocity are an- nually sacrificed thousands of deer, the elk and antelope, the coyote, and the mazama, a beautiful hybrid of the High Rocks far too beautiful, too inoffensive to kill. It has the head of a goat, the wool of a sheep, the agility of a gazelle. Squirrels, rabbits, beavers and ground-hogs are among the lesser game. Quail, plover, grouse, partridge, snipe, ring-neck pheasants, wild tur- keys, doves, pigeons, the sage-hen and every sort of wild goose and duck are found within con- venient journeys from all principal cities. Knights of the rod and reel find abundant fish- ing in the lakes and streams of the Counties of Siskiyou, Shasta, Plumas, Sierra Nevada, Placer, Mendocino and Tuolumne, in the McCloud, Feather, Truckee, Smith, Eel, Russian, American, Kings and Kaweah Rivers, up San Gabriel Can- 3 T on, in the San Bernardino Mountains, and down the coast from Crescent City to Oneonta. About Ukiah giant fresh-water bass are taken ; the McCloud and Truckee Rivers and Lake Tahoe are fished for their trout, the Sacramento and