2 Myron Harmon Swenk 
cottonwood grove west of the city of North Platte, Lincoln 
county, about three miles from the river, according to Mr. Wilson 
Tout. Mr. Tout saw the specimen, which, mnkowattaalie ly, was 
not preserved. 
In the winter of 1900-1901 a porcupine was reported as killed 
by a ranchman in the Pine Ridge near Harrison, Sioux county, 
but was not preserved, and a Plateau Lynx killed in southern 
Sioux county on February 9, 1916, had numerous porcupine quills 
in its head. Mr. L. M. Gates writes me that two porcupines were 
caught in the Ridge near Chadron, Dawes county, during the fall 
of 1915. But the center of abundance of this animal in Ne- 
braska during recent years seems to be in the North Platte valley. 
On January 8, 1896, a specimen was received at the University 
from Scottsbluff county and was mounted for the Museum. 
During the summer of 1913 Dr. R. H. Wolcott saw a porcupine 
lying by the roadside in Banner county. On July 28, 1914, Mr. 
P. P. Wilcox, of Minatare, Scottsbluff county, caught a porcupine 
in an oats field seven miles north of the town of Scottsbluff, and 
he kept the animal in captivity in the town of Minatare for a 
time, but it finally chewed its way out of its cage and escaped. 
At about the same time Mr. J. N. Wood, of Scottsbluff, captured 
another specimen in about the same manner. On September 26, 
1915, Mr. J. E. Dorothy found a fine old male porcupine in the 
trees on his farm three miles east of Mitchell, Scottsbluff county, 
and captured it alive. It was sent to me on September 30 and 
kept alive in captivity until October 19, when it was killed and. 
added to the author’s collection at the University. Later in the 
fall Mr. F. C. White, a neighbor of Mr. Dorothy, found another 
porcupine on his farm in a beet field and sent it alive to Hastings 
College, from whence it was sent to an eastern museum. ‘These, 
with other records that I have been unable to fully verify, indicate 
that porcupines are yet surviving in fair numbers in extreme 
western Nebraska. 
In 1877 J. A. Allen pointed out the large size of the porcupines 
from Wyoming and Montana? as contrasted with Alaska speci- 
mens. This same characteristic apparently holds true when 
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