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mammals as well as birds, so that proof of the former existence of several 

 now extinct or nearly extinct species is available. The Clarke collection is 

 in the high school and in the store of A. H. Eddy at Sault Ste. Marie, and 

 has been examined by the writer. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



In addition to the general assistance received while in the field, and acknowl- 

 edged in the report upon the birds, the writer wishes to acknowledge the 

 aid of John Clarke, Fred Weatherhog, Palmer Barrows, Benjamin Butler, 

 James Youmans, Wilham Clarke, William McGraw, Captain Carpenter 

 and all the members of the crew at the Life Saving Station. 



LIST OF SPECIES. 



1. Rangifer caribou. (Gmelin). Woodland Caribou. — In 1914, the writer 

 obtained at Vermilion the basal half of a caribou antler from Captain Car- 

 penter of'the Life Saving Station. This antler was picked up on the hills just 

 south of Vermilion. The basal half of a pair of caribou antlers was also found 

 at the lumber camp of James Youmans, four miles southeast of Vermihon. 

 He stated that they were picked up in the woods near the camp in 1912. 

 Later the man who found them told the writer that some of the bones of 

 the carcass w^ere scattered about the spot when discovered, but that they 

 had subsequently been destroyed by forest fires. These antlers are well 

 preserved and evidently not many years old, and hence substantiate the 

 statement of many of the old residents that the caribou formerly came into 

 this region in winter. 



2. Alces americanus (Jardine). Eastern Moose. — This, species is still to 

 be found in the eastern half of the upper peninsula.' Fred Weatherhog, who 

 carries the mail daily between Whitefish Point postoffice and Vermilion, saw 

 a large bull moose, in October, 1911, near the road about midway between 

 those places. On July 15, 1912, he met another with smaller antlers (in 

 the velvet) about two miles west of the postoffice. The writer went to the 

 place with him the next morning and saw the tracks, and followed them a 

 long distance into a large marsh. A few days afterward another resident 

 discovered the tracks of a moose crossing a hay meadow at the lower end 

 of Little Lake, where the writer also saw the tracks again. Hawkins in- 

 formed the writer that in 1908 three moose came across the bay and crossed 

 his yard at Whitefish Point, tearing down rods of wire fence; they went 

 southwest, crossing Little Lake. Although outside of the region explored it 

 is of interest to note that there are in the Museum mounted heads of a bull 

 shot near Brimley, Chippewa County, in the fall of 1912, and a cow taken in 

 Schoolcraft county in Novemlier, 1912. 



3. Odocoileus americanus borealis (Miller). Northern AVhite-tailed Deer. — 

 This species is still very common in the Whitefish Point region, and both 

 in 1912 and 1914, the writer saw numbers of them and in many different 

 habitats. Mr. Hawkins stated that formerly all the deer migrated south 

 to southwest, and that they still leave the open marshes and sand ridges 

 and winter in the hard wood forests a few miles southwest of the point. 



4. Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Gapper). Northern Gray Squirrel. — This 

 species was formerly abundant on the point, according to all of the old 

 hunters, but it is now rare. The residents claim that the decrease is due 

 to the great numbers of red squirrels which drive them away. According 



