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species of mammals (unflomesticated) in Pennslyvania, 

 where we have at the present time probably fifty well 

 defined species. 



Birds, also, even in (he lace of most iieartless cru- 

 sades made auainst thrm by market hunters, (after the 

 game birds and other kinds slaughtered by the tens of 

 thousands for the millinery trade), are still to be found, 

 as stated elsewhere in this article, at certain seasons 

 and in particular localities, quite plentifully. 



SOME THAT HAVE GONE. 



The last Bison or Buffalo, accocrding to Mr. S. N. 

 Rhoads,* "killed in Central Pennsylvania was shot 

 about the year 1800, by Col. John Kelley, in Kelley 

 township, Union county, five miles from Lewisburg." 



THE LAST EL.K. 



About 35 years ago a large Elk was taken, my friend 

 and colleague, the Commissioner of Forestry, Dr. Jo- 

 seph T. Kothrock, tells me, when he was with a corps of 

 civil engineers, surveying a line for the Philadelphia 

 and Erie Railroad, in the county of Elk. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads says in referring to this species: 

 "The latter-nam(d regions (Potter, Tioga and Lycoming 

 counties), formed the liunting grounds of my veteran 

 friend, f^eth I. Nelson, whose diary, between 1831 and 

 1837, shows that he killed 28 Elk during the period." 



Mr. Rhoads, quoting Setli T. Nielsen, says: 



"A bull Elk was killed in Elk county In 1867 by a veteran 

 Indian hunter of the Cattaraugus Reservation, named Jim 

 Jacobs," 



*A contribution to the Mammalogy of Central Pennsylvania, 

 by Samuel N. Rhoads. Published in the Proceeding-s of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, April, 1897. 



