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In 1874, Mv. M. S. Trescott, naivcyvillc. Luzeine 

 county, says: "One was killed on tlie Loyalsock creek, 

 in Sullivan county." From reports of New York City 

 and Pennsylvania fur dealers and sliij^pers, it is 

 learned that probably not over half a dozen Fishers 

 are now annually killed in this State. At the present 

 time about the only counties where these animals are 

 to be found are in Clearfield, Cameron, Elk and prob- 

 ably Clinton, Potter and Sullivan, and in all of these 

 they are reported to be very rare. 



THE PINK MARTEN. 



The Pine Mai (en, an animal very mink-liko in its 

 .general apjx aiance, but which can be distinj?uished 

 from the blood-thirsty and destructive Mink by its 

 white and yellowish throat markings, seems to be pre- 

 sent, but only in very small numbers, in a few sparsely- 

 settled sections of Cameron, Potter, Clearfield, Clin- 

 ton, Sullivan and Elk counties. Fur deahn-s claim 

 from twenty-five to fifty are annuallv taken in this 

 State. 



THE WILD PIGEON. 



Twenty years ago the ^Vild Pigeon occurred in great 

 numbers in this Commonwealth. Nesting or roosting 

 places, covering several miles each, of these game birds 

 with which the older residents are so familiar, were 

 regularly resoited to year after year by the i)igeons. 



The love of jK-cnniary gnin stimulated market hunt- 

 ers to visit these i)laces nnd with nets, axes, guns and 

 other murdciou.'^ devices, th(^y soon drove the helpless 

 pigeons from one locality to another and finallv from 

 the State. 



A few of these birds are yet occasionally seen along 



