1910] Jackson, Distribution of Certain Wisconsin Mammals. 



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Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi (Allen). 

 Mearns Eabbit. 



Cottontail rabbits were noted at Alma, Black River Fails, 

 Durand and Hudson. July 25, 1908 a young one, barely one 

 third grown, was caught by hand in a patch of ragweed near a 

 thin bfack oak woods two miles northeast of Hudson. 



Lynx ruffus (Giildenstaedt). 

 Wild Cat. 



An adult male was trapped at Hawleys Lake, six miles north- 

 west of Cable, on August 23, 1908. The skull is in the writer's 

 collection. A female, skin and skull, in my collection was taken 

 near the same locality December 21, 1908. Wild cats are reported 

 as occuring in the hills west of Devils Lake. 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus ocythous Bangs. 

 Wisconsin Gray Fox. 



A fine male is in the University of Wisconsin collection. It 

 was collected by Mr. Phil Fox, February 9, 1907, in Lima Town- 

 ship, Pepin County. Scalps belonging to this species have been 

 identified by Prof. George Wagner from Jackson County and 

 Dunn County in 1907 and from Adams County in January, 1910. 

 The last named specimen was seen by the writer. The scalps had 

 been sent to the various county boards with a claim for "wolf 

 bounty" ; scalps of house cats have likewise been substituted for 

 wild cat scalps. Professor Wagner deserves much credil for his 

 effective efforts in thus preventing misdirected bounty funds in the 

 state. 



Lutra canadensis (Schreber). 

 Otter. 



Two fine male otters were killed February 12, 1908 two miles 

 west of Crandon, Forest County ; a skull of one of these is in 

 the writer's collection. Otters were reported as quite common 

 in the vicinity of Black Oak Lake and Lake Mamie during the 

 winter of 1908-1909. 



Ursus americanus Pallas. 

 F.lack Bear. 



Black bears have reappeared in Oneida County since 1907, and 

 are reported more plentiful in Vilas County. In late June, 1908 

 a female and two cubs were killed near Wolf Lake, Oneida Coun- 

 ty, and there have been reports of others seen in the region nearby. 



