360 riiOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LUTRA HUDSONICA Lacepede. 

 AMERICAN OTTER. 



Otters were said by one or two of the Oatskill residents to have 

 beou taken occasionally along Schoharie Creek and at Kaaterskill Lake 

 during the past twenty- (ive years. We saw no signs of them. 



MUSTELA AMERICANA Turton. 

 SA15LE: P1>E MARTEN. 



Some of the residents assert that both the pine marten and the pekan, 

 M. pennanti Erxleben, are still sometimes taken in the Oatskills; 

 others exclude the pekan, but say that the marten still exists. 



CANIS NUBILUS Say. 

 GfRAV TIMBER WOLE. 



It is generally believed that the last wolf disappeared from the Cats- 

 kills, along with the deer, many years ago, though one man expressed 

 the belief that some still remain. 



UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS (Miiller). 

 EASTERN GRAY FOX. 



A few gray foxes Avere said to have made their appearance in the 

 upper part of Schoharie valley during recent years. 



FELIS CONCOLOR Linnaeus. 

 AMERICAN PANTHER. 



One man told me that a panther had been killed in the Catskills 

 within tlie past three years; others that it was extirpated long ago. 



DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA Kerr. 



VIRGINIA OPOSSUM. 



The opossum seems to be unknown in this portion of the Catskills, 

 though it has been taken near the town of Catskill, at the base of the 

 mountains, on the iiudsou Eiver side. 



