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toward Mendocino County. This story is corroborated by Jack Briones, 

 a keeper of the Point Reyes Club, who recently told Mr. McAllister that 

 his father had told him the same story. Point Reyes seems to have 

 been a favorite resort for elk. 



Captain MacKenzie. who was for many years captain of the steamer 

 San Rafael, running- to San Quentin Point, and later to Sausalito, 

 informed Mr. McAllister that in the early days, probably in 1850, he 

 made a trip in a small sloop to the mouth of Petaluma Creek, and while 

 exploring the marshes in that vicinity he came upon a great herd of elk. 



Fig. 23. — It wns necessary to saw off the antlers of the big bucks to keep them 

 from injuring each other in the pens and cars. Plioto by John Rowley. 



They were in great numbers. Several were killed before the herd made 

 off, rushing headlong over everything like a herd of stampeded horses 

 or cattle. 



Mr. McAllister has obtained some valuable data from Jim Paine, the 

 old Suisun :Marsh hunter, who, with his partner, Seth Beekwith, in the 

 seventies and eighties, furnished the San Francisco market with the 

 finest and most toothsome canvasbacks. Paine claims that he killed the 

 last tule elk ever seen on the Suisun marsh. It was, he thinks, in the 

 fall of 1868. He was sculling up the Cordelia Slough after a day's 

 shooting, when, near what is now Teal station, he saw a large cow elk 

 plunge into the slough just ahead. Sculling alongside, he killed the 

 animal with a heavy load of duck shot. 



Mr. Chas. A. Allen, the veteran naturalist and collector of Nicasio 

 and San Geronimo, Marin County, has given us the benefit of his 

 experience. He has collected in Marin County for forty-two years. 

 In his earlier years he found elk antlers very plentiful about Point 

 Reyes from Bolinas north to the mouth of Tomales Bay. The elk 



