Number 124 July 10, 1922 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Published by the University 



NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF BERRIEN COUNTY, 

 MICHIGAN 



By Norman A. Wood 



The data on the mammals of Berrien County given below 

 were obtained more or less incidentally by the writer while 

 engaged in a study of the birds of the region in 1917, 1918, 

 1 919, and 1920. A few traps were set in the region about 

 Harbert in 1917 and 1918, but in the work in the E'. K. War- 

 ren Preserve, in 1919 and 1920, no trapping was done since 

 the mammals of the woods and dunes were being studied by 

 Lee R. Dice.'^ 



List of Species 



Bison bison bison. American Bison. — The basal portion of 

 a small skull with horn cores attached was dug up at Birch- 

 wood Beach by Wells Sizer about 1897. At present these 

 are the only remains of the species in Michigan known to me. 

 Three skulls, which were found by L. D. Watkins near Man- 



1 Occ. Pap. Museum of Zoology, No. 86, June 24, 1920. 



