2 8 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Somerset Co. Scarce. No knowledge of any killed in Co. last season, 

 1898. Moore. 



Sullivan Co. Range all over this Co., but quite rare now (1900). Heard 

 of 6 or 8 killed in this and Wyoming Cos. this season; 15 would probably 

 include all taken. A buck was sent to the Academy of Natural Sciences from 

 here, shot 2 miles east of Ricketts' near Wyoming Co. line in 1891. Behr, 

 1902. 



Tioga Co. Very few left in Tioga Co. Babcock. Hunters killed three 

 in the Canton region in 1898. Cleveland. 



Union Co. Increasing in the Allegheny Mts. of the northwest border. 

 Several killed in 1898. Chambers. 



Venango Co. "As many here in 1900 as there were 15 years ago. Many 

 more than 7 years ago. Twenty- seven killed in 1897. Hounding not 

 tolerated." Dorworth, 1900. 



Wayne Co. Very scarce. A few remain along the Delaware River. 

 Kellew. Almost extinct. Day. 



Westmoreland Co. Practically exterminated. None killed for several 

 years. Rhoads, 1899. 



Wyoming Co. A few left; only 2 killed in fall 1900. Robinson. Range 

 in S. W. part of Co. Behr. Mehoopany Creek is their haunt. Campbell. 

 See above under Sullivan Co. 



Records in N. J. Sussex Co. Long since exterminated in northern N. J., 

 but occasionally driven across the Delaware into Sussex Co. from Pike Co. 

 by dogs and hunters. I know of no recent records of this, however. 

 Rhoads, See Proc. A. N. Sci., 1897, p. 25. 



Warren Co. " Occasionally seen in the mountains near the Water Gap." 

 Davison, 1902. Some deer straggle into the mountains and rarely shot. 

 Strickland, 1902. 



Habits, etc. The following brief notes regarding the northern deer as seen 

 in Clinton Co., Pa., were given by Seth Nelson of Round Island. 



The largest number of points ever known to him on one buck's horn was 

 n, 21 in all. The heaviest bucks weigh 200 Ibs. dressed, their offal weighing 

 50 Ibs., the average buck weighing 125 Ibs. dressed, and the average doe 80 

 Ibs. Does have fawns in May, rut about October ist. Some velvet may re- 

 main on buck-horns in October. The does oftener have 2 than i fawn, 

 sometimes 3. They go to a thick windfall to drop young. Fawns are 

 weaned in 4 months or before the rutting season. They stay hid where 

 calved 2 or 3 weeks. Twin fawns stay together all their first winter. More 

 does than bucks are born. In the rutting season i buck may control 5 does, 

 mostly 3. He shot one doe with spike horns 2 inches long. In spring deer 

 feed on wintergreen, tree mosses, partridge berry, buds of trees and bushes, 



