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Wabash county. Ulrey's collection. Took one at Terre Haute, Sept" 



8, 1890. 

 Franklin county (Haymond). Next to the Little Brown Bat this is 



perhaps the most common species in southeastern Indiana. 

 3(1. Alalapha cinerea (Beauvais). Hoary Bat. 



"White county. A specimen taken in White county (1890) by Miss Eva 



Chamberlain. 

 Franklin county (Haymond). Has been taken by E. R. Quick. 



40. Vesperuyo caroUnensis (GeoflF. i. Carolina Bat. 

 Franklin county. Identified by Mr. Quick. 



41. Cariacns virginianus (Boddiert). Virginia Deer. 

 Commmon in the early. days. 



Franklin county (Haymond — 1847, Butler). I have no recent records, 



unless La Grange county, 1870, (Steininger) be alright. 

 Itipley county. Only few years ago. (Butler). 



42. CervHs canadensis Erxleben. Wapiti ; Elk. 



Franklin county. Was fqund comparatively rarely in the White water 

 region at the time of its settlement and soon after disappeared. I 

 have evidence of its occurrence in > Ripley county subsequent to 

 1810. Its former abundance was indicated early in the century by 

 the great numbers of antlers to be found in the beds of the streams 

 most of which soon disappeared, but often they are still found buried 

 beneath the surface of the soil. 

 4o. Bison bison (L.). Bison ; Buffalo. 



The Bufi'alo is on the seal of the state of Indiana, and was no doubt found 

 in the state in an early day. Allen, in Ninth Report of the U.S. Geological and 

 Geographical Survey, 1875, pp. 502, etc., gives all that he could find as to its 

 former distribution in North America. From this it appears that it was at 

 one time abundant over large portions of Indiana. Charlevoix, writing in 

 1720, says " all the country that is watered by the Ouabache and by the 

 Ohio which runs into it, is very fruitful. It consists of vast meadows, 

 well- watered, where the wild Buffaloes feed by thousands." Yaudreuil, 

 writing about the same time, and La Hontan who saw Lake Erie and 

 the surrounding country in 1687, also speak of the Buffalo as being abund- 

 ant in this region then. See also Audubon's article on the Buffalo given 

 in The Life of Audubon bv Mrs. Horace St. John. 



Franklin county. Only the earliest settlers and they but once, so far as 

 can be learned, reported the occurrence of the Buffalo in this county 



