﻿48 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  son 
  county), 
  this 
  State. 
  The 
  paper 
  gives 
  no 
  description, 
  but 
  asserts, 
  on 
  the 
  

   authority 
  of 
  Indian 
  traders, 
  that 
  seals 
  have 
  heretofore 
  been 
  seen 
  on 
  the 
  bor- 
  

   ders 
  of 
  the 
  lake, 
  though 
  the 
  circumstance 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  rare 
  occurrence." 
  — 
  

   Pe 
  Kay, 
  Zoology 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  1842. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  the 
  Natural 
  and 
  Civil 
  History 
  of 
  Vermont, 
  a 
  seal 
  was 
  captured 
  

   on 
  the 
  ice 
  on 
  Lake 
  Champlain, 
  a 
  little 
  south 
  of 
  Burlington, 
  in 
  February, 
  1810, 
  

   and 
  one 
  was 
  killed 
  upon 
  the 
  ice 
  between 
  Burlington 
  and 
  Port 
  Kent, 
  in 
  

   February, 
  1846. 
  

  

  " 
  During 
  the 
  past 
  winter 
  one 
  was 
  killed 
  on 
  Onondaga 
  lake 
  that 
  must 
  have 
  

   reached 
  this 
  remote 
  inland 
  water 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  many 
  of 
  these 
  seals 
  in 
  Long 
  Island 
  sound, 
  chiefly 
  about 
  the 
  

   Thimble 
  islands; 
  and, 
  March 
  25, 
  1879, 
  I 
  saw 
  one 
  on 
  a 
  rock 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  

   river, 
  near 
  Sing 
  Sing." 
  — 
  Merriam, 
  Mammals 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondacks, 
  1884. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  newspaper 
  reports 
  one 
  was 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river, 
  at 
  

   Hyde 
  Park, 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1893. 
  

  

  Note 
  V.— 
  The 
  Hooded 
  Seal. 
  

  

  Pe 
  Kay's 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  hooded 
  seal 
  " 
  was 
  taken 
  from 
  an 
  adult 
  male 
  

   captured 
  near 
  Eastchester, 
  about 
  fifteen 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  city 
  (New 
  York). 
  

   * 
  * 
  * 
  The 
  preceding 
  must 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  notice 
  of 
  its 
  existence 
  

   within 
  our 
  territorial 
  limits, 
  where 
  it 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  rare 
  and 
  acci- 
  

   dental 
  visitor." 
  — 
  De 
  Kay, 
  Zoology 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  1842. 
  

  

  So 
  far 
  as 
  known 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  hooded 
  seal 
  

   in 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  Note 
  VI. 
  — 
  Wolverine, 
  Glutton, 
  Carcajou. 
  

  

  " 
  Although 
  we 
  have 
  not 
  met 
  with 
  this 
  animal, 
  yet 
  hunters 
  who 
  have 
  killed 
  

   them 
  repeatedly, 
  and 
  knew 
  them 
  well, 
  have 
  assured 
  us 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  still 
  

   found 
  in 
  the 
  districts 
  north 
  of 
  Racquet 
  lake. 
  It 
  is, 
  however, 
  everywhere 
  a 
  

   rare 
  species. 
  Prof 
  . 
  Emmons 
  states 
  that 
  they 
  still 
  exist 
  in 
  the 
  Hoosac 
  moun- 
  

   tains, 
  Massachusetts. 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  The 
  wolverine 
  was 
  formerly 
  found 
  as 
  far 
  

   south 
  as 
  Carolina, 
  but 
  its 
  southern 
  limits 
  at 
  present 
  do 
  not 
  extend 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  

   forty-second 
  degree." 
  — 
  DeKay, 
  Zoology 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  1842. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  wolverine 
  (Gulo 
  luscua) 
  is 
  not 
  now 
  an 
  inhabitant 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondacks, 
  

   and 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  find 
  among 
  the 
  hunters 
  and 
  trappers 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  

   any 
  one 
  who 
  has 
  ever 
  seen 
  it 
  in 
  our 
  wilderness. 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  Dr. 
  Bachman 
  killed 
  

   one, 
  about 
  the 
  year 
  1811, 
  in 
  its 
  den 
  in 
  a 
  ledge 
  of 
  rocks 
  in 
  Rensselaer 
  county.' 
  

   — 
  Merriam, 
  Mammals 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondacks, 
  1884. 
  

  

  Note 
  VII.— 
  The 
  Wolf. 
  

  

  The 
  wolf 
  still 
  occurs 
  sparingly 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondacks. 
  Several 
  packs 
  were 
  

   reported 
  in 
  the 
  newspapers 
  in 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1890-91. 
  The 
  game 
  law 
  of 
  1892 
  

   offers 
  a 
  bounty 
  of 
  thirty 
  dollars 
  for 
  each 
  grown 
  wolf 
  and 
  fifteen 
  dollars 
  for 
  

   each 
  pup 
  wolf. 
  

  

  Note 
  VIIL— 
  The 
  Panther, 
  Puma, 
  Cougar. 
  

  

  " 
  A 
  full-grown 
  male 
  panther, 
  weighing 
  150 
  pounds, 
  was 
  shot 
  in 
  Stone 
  Lane, 
  

   within 
  che 
  Schenectady 
  city 
  limits, 
  Saturday 
  afternoon. 
  The 
  animal 
  is 
  

   thought 
  to 
  have 
  strayed 
  from 
  the 
  Adirondacks."— 
  Albany 
  Press 
  and 
  Knicker- 
  

   bocker, 
  Tuesday, 
  September 
  5, 
  1893. 
  The 
  game 
  law 
  of 
  1892 
  offers 
  a 
  bounty 
  

   of 
  twenty 
  dollars 
  for 
  each 
  panther 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  