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MAMMALIA. 



cannot be found, it digs holes in the ground for its home. From six 

 to ten pups constitute a Htter, and they are usually produced in April 

 or May. The period of gestation is said to be sixty-three days.* 



Bounties paid on Wolves under the Law of 1871. 

 Data concerning Wolves killed in the Adirondacks from June, 

 1 87 1, to July, 1882, on which bounties have been paid by the State. 

 (From official records on file in the Comptroller's office, at Albany.) 



* Fauna Americana, by Richard Harlan, ^LD., 1S25, p. Si. 



