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2. Cervus canadensis (Erxleben). 

 Elk. 



Remains of the Elk, especially the horns, are still occasionally 

 found in the peaty bogs in Marshall county, and attest the former 

 presence of this animal in the vicinity of the lake. They evidently 

 disappeared sometime before the deer. The antiseptic nature of 

 the peat has preserved these remains much longer than elsewhere, 

 so that the evidence of the animal's former occurrence remains much 

 longer in regions where there are peat-bogs than in other places. 

 Mr. S. S. Chad wick has in his possession part of an elk-horn 3 inches 

 across at the base and 22 inches long, found in low ground a few 

 miles southeast of the lake about 1904. 



3. Odocoileus virginianus (Boddaert). 

 Virginia Deer. 



Formerly Deer were common throughout Indiana but none has 

 been seen in recent years. Occasionally a deer is reported from the 

 Kankakee region west of Maxinkuckee but none of these reports 

 has been authenticated. It is said that one was killed in Jasper 

 county in 1890 and one seen in Newton county in 1891. 1 



4. Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Gapper. 

 Gray Squirrel. 



Formerly the Gray Squirrel was very abundant throughout In- 

 diana and southern Michigan. Forty to fifty years ago squirrel hunt- 

 ing was an avocation in which nearly every farmer and farmer's 

 son, as well as many of those who dwelt in the villages and towns 

 engaged, and a poor marksman indeed was he who did not return 

 from a morning in the woods with the old muzzle-loader and any- 

 where from 6 to 20 squirrels. To be regarded as a real expert shot, 

 however, it was necessary to be able to "bark" the squirrel, that 

 is, to kill it simply by shooting through the bark of the limb on 



1 Butler, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1894, p. 83. 



