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PORCUPINE. 



(Family Hystricidee.) 



ERETHIZON, (Cuv.) Erethizon dorsatus, Hystrix Hud- 

 sonius, Brisson, white-haired porcupine. This animal is 

 found on the Alleghany. Its range is said, by Baird and 

 Girard, to be Eastern United States to Mississippi River, 

 and North Pennsylvania to Canada, (and 67 Rich.) 



RABBIT. 



(Family Leporidae.) 



LEPUS, (Linn.) Lepus Americanus, northern hare, or 

 white rabbit, is said to range from Virginia to Labrador. 

 It is found in the forests, laurel and rhododendron thickets, 

 of the Alleghany in Pennsylvania. It is very shy, and 

 rarely seen, from its vigilant habits and inaccessible retreats, 

 although quite numerous in some places. Hunted with 

 hounds it affords a rare and exciting sport, eluding the 

 dogs like a "will-o'-the-wisp," and requiring sometimes 

 hours to capture him. 



LEPUS Sylvaticus, (Bach.) The gray, or common rabbit, 

 is found abundantly through all the States from Massa- 

 chusetts to Texas and west to Missouri River. It abounds 

 in numbers on the mountain where the red fox has been 

 partially banished or exterminated. 



ELK. 



ORDER RUMINANTIA, (Family CervidaB.) 



CERVUS, (Linn.) Cervus Canadensis, American elk. 

 The elk still lingers in the wildest recesses and fastnesses of 

 Pennsylvania Alleghanies. Once abundant on this range, 

 western table -lands, and valleys, it is now found only in the 

 most inaccessible places. Occasionally perfect specimens are 

 taken, but this splendid animal, one of the noblest of Ameri- 



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