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Under date of September 5, 1898, Dr Fred F. Drury, of Gouverneur, 

 St Lawrence co. ; writes to Dr Frederick J. H. Merrill as follows : 

 "I have recently come into possession of a pair of elk horns, dug up on 

 a farm about four miles from this village. They were accidentally dis- 

 covered while digging out a spring hole in a pasture to provide water for 

 cattle during the dry season. One horn is in perfect state of preser- 

 vation, the other has been influenced somewhat by exposure, but not 

 enough to in any way destroy the symmetry. The perfect one measures 

 from root to tip 39 inches, and biggest circumference 83^ inches. They 

 each have five prongs, and when placed in approximate apposition have 

 at widest point a spread of 34 inches opposite biggest prong." 



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 Alee americanus Jardine Moose 



1835 Alces americanus Jardine, Naturalists library, 13 (Mammalia: 



deer, antelopes, camels, etc.) 125 

 1842 Cervus alces De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 115. 

 1884 Alee americanus Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 2 : 40. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. 



Faunal position. Canadian and transition zone. 



Distribution in New York. The moose which once ranged throughout 

 the state has been extinct in New York since the early sixties. 



Principal records. De Kay : — - u They are yet numerous in the unsettled 

 portions of the state, in the counties of Essex, Herkimer, Hamilton, 

 Franklin, Lewis and Warren, and since the gradual removal of the 

 Indians they are now (1841) believed to be on the increase" ('42, p. 117). 



Merriam : " It is not many years since the moose (Alee americanus) 

 was a favorite object of pursuit in the Adirondacks, from which region it 

 was exterminated as nearly as I can ascertain about the year 1861" 

 ('84d, p. 40). 



Sciurus hudsonicus gymnicus Bangs Canadian red squirrel 



1842 Sciurus hudsonicus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. 



p. 61 (part). 

 1884 Sciurus hudsonicus Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 2 : 111. 

 1894 Sciurus hudsonicus J. A. Allen, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 7 Nov. 



1894. 6:325. 

 1899 Sciurus hudsonicus gymnicus Bangs, New England zool. club. Proc. 



1 : 27. 31 Mar. 1899. 



Type locality. Greenville (near Moosehead lake), Maine. 

 Faunal position, Canadian zone. 



