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Catskills, N. Y. Moose "ranged throughout nearly the 

 whole of New England, and in New York as far 

 south as the Catskills. (Madison Grant, "The Van- 

 ishing Moose," Century Magazine, January, 1894, 



P- 347-) 

 Colorado. "Remains of a Moose (J Ice americana) said 



to have been killed in South Park, Col,, in 1871, 



were observed by the Expedition. The statement is 



open to doubt; if correct it fixes the southernmost 



limit of the species." (H. C. Yarrow, Zool. West of 



100 Mer., 1875, p. 71.) 



? Colorado. "In the summer of 1887 I saw a small pair 

 of well-bleached Moose antlers, on the dirt roof of a log 

 cabin near the foot of Sweet Water Lake, about 15 

 miles north of Dotsero, which is a station on the Denver 

 and Rio Grande Railway, about 12 miles east of 

 Glenwood Springs, Col. The cabin was at least five 

 or six years old, perhaps twice as old. It was at that 

 time owned by a man named Peal, who told me that 

 the Moose was the only one that had ever been known 

 to be in that country, and was killed while with a 

 band of Elk or a bunch of stock, I have forgotten 

 which." (H.W. Skinner, of Chicago, in letter, March 

 4, 1901.) 



? Oregon. "About eight years ago, while I and two others 

 were hunting Deer on the head of the South Fork of 

 Silver Creek, in Marion County, Ore., we found a 

 pair of Moose horns in a fair state of preservation." 

 (Abe Kromling, of Melville, Clatsop County, Ore., 

 in letter, August 8, 1899.) 



Records supported only by the finding of recent antlers 

 are to be received with caution; and especially so when the 

 antlers are imperfect. In several cases the supposed frag- 

 ment of Moose antler has turned out to be merely an ab- 

 normal palmation from the common deer. 



