nFS(^RlPTIO]S OF AN EXTINCT MINK FROM THE SHELL- 



By Daniel Webster Prentiss. 



Upon the shores and islands of Penobscot Bay and the adjacent coast 



there exist numerous shell-heaps, the majority of which were made by 

 theieexi. ^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^ ^^^ ^.^t,„t, 



l;t"the^ V '^^^^^ few' square yards. The age of the majority 

 rfthese^el -heaps is unknown, but from the absence ot me als and 

 a tSe of EuropLn manufacture from many of them, it .s allowable 



p„„.. .,.c, o, »..-.„ ..-* ;:— £T.'.;. «t 



to .uppoBC that these at .ea.t date back to pv^Colum^^^^^^^ 

 idea is strengthened by the i-oj^ '»;' ^^ *P,, .-hieh appears 

 of the skull of a mink, representmg -^ t ,> «• «"»""'- "' "'^'^ 

 to be new, and is below described to the ^^^^ ^„,, ,^„„,,,age 



extinct species of anin.als «y> '1°"''.''«:! '"f The drawings illustrate 

 of the contents of these *ell-heaps n ea^.^. 



well the specific ditlerencesjwmte<UHrtbelow^ 



^---^-^^;^;^;:^^;^^;7^^xv,-No. ,336. ^. 



