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Book Title: Bean’s History And Directory Of Nevada County, California

NATURAL HISTORY.

  My remarks under this head will be brief. I propose to give a list of the
animals found in the county, by the names known among hunters and people
generally, without any attempt at scientific classification. When specimens
shall have been collected and examined by the State Geological corps the proper
scientific name will be given to each.

  Quadrupeds-—Grizzly bear, cinnamon bear, panther, or California lion, large
yellow wolf, coyote, Indian, dog, lynx, or catamount, wild cat, mountain or
civit cat, gray, black, silver and cross fox, fisher, badger, marten, weasel,
mink, large striped skunk, small spotted skunk, large gray, ground, pine and
flying squirrel, chipmuck, otter, raccoon, woodchuck, gopher, mole, wood-mouse,
and rat like a kangaroo in its motions. Besides these the black-tailed deer is
found, and a small fur animal of the size of the muskrat. A porcupine was shot
last Fall near Nevada.

  Birds.—The list of birds is somewhat large. I have probably not obtained the
names of many. The following are the common names of all that can be called to
recollection: Condor, or king vulture, bald eagle, golden eagle, turkey buzzard,
raven, crow, several kinds of hawk, road runner, several varieties of
woodpecker, grouse, mountain and valley quail, pigeon, meadow lark, magpie,
blackbird, flicker, robin, snipe, sand snipe, plover, curlew, red-winged
blackbird, bluebird, oriole, gray sparrow, small sparrow, cherrybird, crossbill,
linnet, cheewink, California canary, martin, swallow, blue crane, or heron,
sand-hill crane, wild goose, small Canadian goose, wood duck, mallard, teal,
dipper duck and mud-hen, pelican, and two varieties of humming bird.

  Fish.—Salmon, salmon trout, brook trout, lake trout, perch, whitefish, sucker,
chub, and two varieties of eels.

  Reptiles.—Two kinds of rattlesnake, long striped, brown, pilot, green, purple,
small garter, milk and water snakes. Four kinds of lizzard, horned toad, common
toad, frogs.

  Of insect life there is too great a variety to be specified in the limit,
allowed us.

  The botany of the county is yet to be classified. Very many plants are here
not known to the botanists of the East, and until examined and properly
described the flora of the region can not well be studied by the young student.


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Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California

CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH
SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS TOWNS AND MINING
CAMPS, THE NAMES AND OCCUPATION OF
RESIDENTS; ALSO, FULL STATISTICS
OF MINING AND ALL OTHER
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES.

COMPILED BY EDWIN F. BEAN.

PRINTED AT THE DAILY GAZETTE BOOK AND JOB OFFICE,
1867.


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