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 Canis occidentalis (Hicha?*d$o?i) . Timber Wolf. 



During colonial times wolves were so abundant in the 

 county and became so great an enemy of the stock raiser that 

 rigid laws and bounties were provided for their destruction. 

 Thus we find among Acts of Colonial Assembly of N. Y., 

 p. 47 (Bolton 4 , p. 121) the Provincial Assembly compelled to 

 issue the following order, entitled, 'An act for destroying 

 wolves within this colony: Forasmuch as divers inhabi- 

 tants of this colony have suffered many grievous losses in 

 their stock, both of sheep and neat cattle, for the prevention 

 of which and encouragement of those who shall destroy 

 wolves in the said colony, and that the breed of wolves 

 within the colony may be wholly rooted out and extin- 

 guished, be it enacted etc., that in the County of Westchester 

 there be paid twenty shillings for a grown wolf killed by a 

 Christian, ten shillings for such a wolf killed by an Indian, 

 and half that sum respectively for a whelp.' In this State, 

 the wolf is noAv confined to the Adirondack region where a 

 few still remain. The last ones killed there of which I have 

 any knowledge were four taken in Lewis Co. and two in St. 

 Lawrence Co., hi 1897, by George Muir (Miller 10 , pp. 144- 

 145). 



In Westchester County the Wolf was exterminated in the 

 early part of the past century. The last record so far as I 

 have been able to ascertain, was that of a single individual 

 which was killed in 1806, in ' Wolf Swamp,' at the source 

 of the west branch of the Sprain River, a once famous resort 

 for these animals. (Bolton 4 , p. 490.) 



Ursus americanus .Pallas. Black Bear. 



I have been unable to find any published record of the 

 occurrence of the Bear in this county, but there is no doubt 

 that during early times they were very common. 



De Kay 5 says : 'The Bear, once so numerous in this state, 



