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privately subscribed by landowners amounting to #25.00 for 

 every one killed in that neighborhood. 



The last record for the county seems to be that given by 

 Dr. Fisher 6 in his list of Sing Sing mammals, who says : l The 

 last one killed in the neighborhood, as far as we know, was 

 shot by a Mr. Reynolds at Katonah, in March, 1880.' 



It is possible that a few individuals still linger in the 

 northern parts of the county. 



It may be that in early times the Northern Lynx {Lynx 

 canadensis (Kerr.)), occasionally came down into the north- 

 ern portions of Westchester Co., for Dr. Mearns 8 (p. 351) 

 has recorded it as late as 1878, from the vicinity of Rhine- 

 beck on the Hudson River. 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber). Gray Fox. 



The Gray Fox (in this district sometimes erroneously 

 called the 'Silver Gray') is about as common as the Red 

 Fox in the southern portion of the county. It generally 

 selects a rocky, timbered ridge for its haunts. It is not so 

 fleet of foot nor so sagacious as the Red Fox and will never 

 lead the hounds upon so long a chase. It frequently makes 

 but a few short circles and then retreats to its den in the 

 rocks, after the habit of the Cottontail. 



It has been asserted that the Gray Fox will sometimes 

 climb trees when hard pressed by the dogs. I know of but 

 one instance of the occurrence of this feat and then the tree 

 climbed was one partially fallen which had lodged in the fork 

 of an adjoining one, so that the trunk was lying at an angle. 

 This fox is an expert mouse catcher and I have frequently 

 started one from the long grass of a meadow where he had 

 been quietly mousing during the day. 



He sometimes shows little fear of man, as I have occasion- 

 ally started one in the long grass only to have him run off a 

 short distance, quietly turn round and survey me for several 

 moments and then finally make off. 



