r84 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Washington Crossing where it crossed the Delaware River on the ice and was 

 lost in Bucks Co., Pa." — Ray, 1901. 



Cameron Co. — More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900. " Abel 

 Andrews and his sons have killed 23 in Cameron Co. in the years 1894 to 

 1899." — Cleveland, 1901. 



Centre Co. — Less abundant than 30 years ago." — Fenton, 1900. Common 

 in Centre Co. — Rothrock, 1900. 



Clearfield Co. — More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays. 



Clinton Co. — Seth I. Nelson and his son, with whom I have hunted and 

 trapped bears near Round Island, concur in the belief that they have beer> 

 more numerous in that region in the past 20 years than before that time. 

 About the year 1883 the junior Nelson killed 7 bears in East Keating town- 

 ship alone. In 1893 he killed 4. In October, 1898, under his directions, I 

 trapped two in one week within a quarter mile of each other near my camp 

 on top of the mountain. Their signs in the chestnut woods were so abundant 

 and fresh that a novice might have supposed a score passed along these feed- 

 ing grounds every night. These conditions prevailed over a stretch of coun- 

 try reaching the borders of Cameron and Potter Cos. Wherever the mast 

 was abundant the bears had been correspondingly numerous and active. — 

 Rhoads, 1902. Increasingly common in Clinton Co. — Rothrock, 1900.. 

 More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900. 



Columbia Co. — " I have known of none in this Co. for 50 years." — Bucka- 

 lew, 1900. 



Crawford Co. — Extinct. Last one seen near Meadville in 1834. — Kirk- 

 patrick, 1900. 



Elk Co. — A few killed yearly. — Clay, 1900. "In some years as plenty as. 

 in former times. Ten or 12 killed in 1898." — Luhr, 1900. More plentiful 

 than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900. 



Forest Co. — Very plenty. More so than 30 years ago. — Zendle, 1900. 

 Quite plenty in big forests. — Haslet, igoo. 



Franklin Co. — " Exterminated in the South Mountain regions." — Strealy,. 

 Spg., 1897. "In November, 1897, a bear devastated the region of Cove 

 Mountain between Sylvan, Frankhn Co., and Hancock, Maryland." — Streal)',. 

 1899. 



Lackawanna Co. — I handle a skin now and then killed in this Co. — 

 Friant, 1900. 



Luzerne Co. — "Taken every winter in east Luzerne Co." — Stocker, 1900. 

 "They seem to be increasing." — Campbell, 1900. 



Lycomifig Co. — "Increasing yearly. — Parker, 1900. Seely Bovier killed a 

 brown black bear in 1882 in Monet township. It was a male ^3 grown. — 

 See True, Proc. Nat. Mus., Washn., 1882, p. 653. 



McKean Co. — Nearly as plenty as 30 years ago. — W. C. Dickeson, 1900. 



