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state, or tlu'ir present status therein. The present writ- 

 er has added a few data in parenthesis. 



Badger. ''Few if any left." Reported from the cen- 

 tral parts of Iowa in the early eighties. 



Beaver. Linn County and Tama County records of 

 1890, and seen near Missouri Valley in 1891 (?). 



(Beaver slides and men trapping beaver were seen 

 along the Solomon River in west-central Kansas in 

 1887.) 



Buffalo. Disappeared between 1850 and 1870. 



(In 1883 or 1884 two or three buffaloes were re- 

 ported seen in Faulk County, [South] Dakota.) 



Deer, Virginia. "As early as the middle sixties it was 

 practically unknown in the central and eastern part of 

 the State, at least in those portions Avhich were sought 

 for settlement. The species probably lingered some 

 time longer through the central and western portion, 

 but records of the occurrence are too scanty and in- 

 definite for us to name any date for its final extinc- 

 tion.", etc. 



(The writer dimly remembers hearing in boyhood 

 that the Iowa deer lingered last in the northeast sec- 

 tion of the state.) 



Elk. No dates given. 



Lynx. "The species, if present in any locality, must be 

 practically extinct throughout the state." 



Mink. "May survive in specially favored localities, but 

 for the state at large it must be counted as pi'actical- 

 ly gone. ' ' 



(So-called "minks" were often denounced as ene- 

 mies of the chicken-vard in tlie writer's bovliood. Once 



