62 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



ley. Sugar \'alley and along the Coudersport Pike in 

 the winters of those years. One or two lingered about 

 Henry Campbell's saw mill, near Haneyville, in the 

 early part of 189S. Hiram Alyers quotes John Bilby 

 as saying that wolves were observed near the Stevens 

 Fishery in that vicinity in 1900. Wolves were seen in 

 Penn's X'alley in 11»00, 1!)(»1 and 1002. In 1008 a black 

 wolf was observed traveling south towards the Seven 

 Mountains. How far north- these wolves traveled can 

 only be conjectured. Doubtless some of them got as 

 far as the northern border of the Black Forest, there 

 turning back at the vast stretch of arable land ahead of 

 them. Their instinct told them to go north ; for some 

 reason they did not travel south. All the native wolves 

 of Southern Pennsylvania were grey, and between 

 these and the black variety existed a marked antipathy. 

 Perhaps they dreaded going south and encountering 

 their old-time foes. In the north there were no native 

 wolves after 1800, and in that respect the way was. 

 clear. In the southern counties few native wolves 

 hung on after 1890, but they were constantly re- 

 inforced by wanderers from West A'irginia and Mary- 

 land. Be it as it may, the two or three black wolves 

 which remained were back in the Seven ^Mountains in 

 1908, and doubtless died of starvation during the fol- 

 lowing year. They were probably the same as left that 

 region ten years before, and were therefore very aged 

 specimens at the time of their return. Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, in his remarkable treatise on the mammals 

 of the Adirondack region, in speaking of the disappear- 



