1014 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



D. Nicholson, of Morden, tells me that in twenty-five years' 

 residence he has seen but i Coon skins taken in Manitoba; 

 both were from Pembina Valley. 



According to the Boissevam Recorder, i Coon skins 

 were brought into Wooton's store in Manitou from Pembina 



Fig. 234— Paws "' Conn, left hind :mJ left fori 



Valley on March 13, 1902. C. C. Helliwell saw one that was 

 killed on the Souris River some years ago and heard of several 

 others. 



Apparently they are increasing again in that region, as J. S. 

 Charleson writes me that in the spring of 1907, 3 Coons were 

 found in a hen-house near Blyth, 13 miles south-east of Bran- 

 don. One was killed and mounted for Re.x McPhee; another, 

 he says, was caught in the previous winter on the Assiniboine, 



