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a pair of antlers. These were the only pair I ever saw that came off elk that 

 ranged the hills ot Sullivan. i 



" Yours very truly, Ulysses Bird" 



Susquehanna Co. — Place-names, two Elk Lakes in southwestern part of 

 Co. and Elk Mt. in southeastern part. " Now and then an elk was seen in 

 Ararat Twp." (p. 480). Near Harmony (northeastern Twp.) in 1820 John 

 Wrighter " has seen from 30 to 40 elk at one time near his home, with horns 

 so large they appeared like immense chairs on their heads " (p. 484). Clif- 

 ford township " was long known as the ' Elkwood's Settlement,' the township 

 as well as the mountain being the home of the elk in great numbers." — E. 

 Blackman, Hist. Susq. Co., 1873. 



Tioga Co. — " Samuel Wedge of Miles Valley was one of a party which in 

 1858 or '59 caught 3 elks alive in Tioga Co., and brought them to Wells- 

 boro." — Mrs. J. H. Harmon of Wellsboro. See also ('antea) under Lycom- 

 ing Co. 



Venango Co. — " I can find no record that the elk or wapiti have been seen 

 or killed [in Venango Co?] in the last 30 years." — H. C. Dorworth, 1901. 



Wayne Co. — It is stated in Goodrich's History of Wayne Co. (Bethany,. 

 1880) that the wapiti was never very numerous in that county. Their 

 favorite haunt lay in a tract of 1 1,526 acres in the township of Canaan, called 

 Elk Forest. Asa Stanton of Waymart is said to have (in 1880) the horns of 

 one killed in Canaan township. The last one heard of was in 1830. The 

 last one killed in Wayne Co. was taken "about 60 years ago " [1839 or '40]. 

 — Elijah Teeple (letter of Nov., 1899). 



York Co. — Several foot bones and the head of a femur of the wapiti were 

 taken from surface excavations made by Atreus Wanner on an Indian village 

 site at York several years ago. I examined these specimens in the Museum 

 of Science and Art, University of Penna., Phila. They were identified by- 

 Prof. E. D. Cope, and undoubtedly had been the accompaniment of an In- 

 dian feast in comparatively recent times. — S. N. Rhoads, 1902. 



For other records see list of " fossil species." 



Records in N. J. — Bergen and Hudson Cos. — In Vanderdonck's New Neth- 

 erlands, buffaloes and elk are enumerated as being found on the western 

 shores (or territory) of New York Bay, when discovered by Hudson.— Rhoads, 



{Burlington Co.l) — " There are great numbers of wild deer [-Virginia deer} 

 and red deer [-wapiti] also, and these wild creatures are free and common 

 [property] for any to take and kill." See Gabriel Thomas' Hist, of West N. 

 J., 1698, p. 23. See also (antea) Kalm's evidence, under eastern Penna. 

 records. 



{Cape May Col.), — In Plantagenet's New Albion (1648) is quoted a letter 

 of "Master Evelyn," who says in connection with a description of the shores 

 of Delaware Bay in Cape May Co. : "There is much variety of . . . fish. 



