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whales and grampus, elks, deere that bring three young at a time." See 

 Geology of Cape May Co. — Cook, 1857. 



Mercer Co, — "Various bones of elk from aboriginal refuse heaps near 

 Trenton are in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts."— Dr. C. C. Abbott. 



Sussex and Warren Cos. — " A hunter near Delaware Gap, N. J., declared 

 that-his grandfather, who ' killed the last elk shot in Pike county,' Pennsylva- 

 nia, stated that sometimes the hounds would drive both elk and deer across 

 the Delaware River onto Kittanning Mountain."— See Rhoads, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1897, p. 25. 



Family Bovid^e ; Oxen, Sheep and Goats. 

 Genus Bison Hamilton Smith. 

 American Bison or Buffalo. Bison bison (Linnaeus). 



1758. \Bos'\ bison Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, vol. i, p, 72. 



1888. B\ison'\ bison Jordan, Manual Vertebrate Animals, p. 337. 



Type locality. — Mountains of S. E. United States. 



Faunal distribution. — Lowlands from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic 

 Ocean and from the Great Lakes and Saskatchewan to the Gulf of Mexico 

 near lat. 25° occasionally wandering from these into the foothills and passes 

 of the Rocky and AUeghenian mountains. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. y. — No record of the existence of the 

 bison in New Jersey in recent times, save the one given by Vanderdonck 

 (1. c), has been found. Its sub-fossil remains have been found near Trenton, 

 as also in the Delaware valley near the Water Gap in Penna., indicating the 

 ancient proximity of its eastern wanderings to New Jersey soil and the possi- 

 bility of its fortuitous presence in that state during the age of the Red Man. 



In Pennsylvania once normally found in the valleys and mountain glades 

 of the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, whence it passed sparingly 

 eastward across the Allegheny passes into the tributary valleys of the Susque- 

 hanna, thence reaching the Delaware Valley as a straggler only. For a fuller 

 discussion of this, see Rhoads, Proc. Acad. N. Sci., Phila., 1895, pp. 244- 

 248; also 1897, p. 207. 



Records in Pa. — Armstrong Co. — ^Two townships in the southwestern 

 corner and a creek flowing through them into the Allegheny River are named 

 Buffalo. 



Bedford Co. — A creek, a mountain and a mill-village near each other in 

 the west-central part of Co. have this name. 



Butler Co. — The southeastern corner of this Co. is named Buffalo town- 



