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species of mammals (unflomcsticaled) iu PcnnslyvaTiia, 

 where we haA-e at the pi-esent time iirol)alily lifty well- 

 delined species. 



Birds, also, even in the face of most heartless cru- 

 .sades made against them by market hunters, (after the 

 same birds and other kinds slaughtered by the tens of 

 (housands for the millinery trade). are still to be found, 

 as stated elsewhere in this article, at certain seasons 

 and in particulnr localities, quite plentifully. 



SOME THAT HAVE GONE. 



The last Bison or Buffalo, accocrding to Mr. .S. N. 

 Rhoads,* "killed in Central Pennsylvania was shot 

 about the year 1800, by Col. John Kelley. in Kelley 

 townshij). Union county, five miles from Lewisburg." 



THE LAST ELK. 



About 35 years ago a large Elk was taken, my friend 

 and colleague, the Commi.ssiflner of Forestry, Dr. Jo- 

 seph T. Rothrock, tells me, when he was with a corps of 

 dvil engineers, surveying a line for the Philadelphia 

 and Erie Rjiilroad, in the county of Elk. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads says in referring to this species: 

 "The laiter-named regions (Potter, Tioga and Lycoming 

 counties), formed the hunting grounds of my veteran 

 friend, Seth I. Nelson, whose diary, betwei-n 1.'<:^.1 and 

 18.17, shows that he killed 28 Elk during the period." 



;^^r. Rhoads, quoting Seth T. Nelson, says: 



"A buU Elk was killed in Elk county in ISfiT by a veteran 

 Indian hunter of the Cattaraugus Reservation, nam.-fl .Tim 

 Jacobs," 



♦A contribution to the MammaloRy of Central Pennsylvania, 

 by Samuel N. Rhoads. Published in the Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, .\pril. LSD". 



