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waters of Young Woman's Creek [Clinton and Potter Cos.J, in 1868." — 

 Cleveland, 1900. 



Columbia Co. — " None known to me as killed in the Co. for 50 years. I 

 hear them occasionally in the big woods on North Mountain at night." — 

 Buckalew, 1900. A skin was sent to Krider's Phila. gun store by H. Coward 

 to be mounted. Being mutilated it was presented by Mr. Coward to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. He stated it was killed in his camp on the 

 mountain north of Benton, having made a raid on their butter in the spring 

 near camp. It is a female, No. 1563, A. N. Sci. : catalog., taken in fall, 1892. 

 — Rhoads. 



Crawford Co. — Formerly found in the Co. — See Huidecoper, Hist. Crawf. 

 Co., 1846. 



Elk Co.—" I know of some [recently?] taken by O. H. Day in Elk Co." 

 — Goodnough, 1900. "Formerly found. Now few are seen." — Luhr, 1900. 

 "A few left."— Clay, 1900. 



Forest Co. — " Almost extinct since 1875." — Haslet, 1900. 



Lancaster Co. — " Very rare, if not extinct." — Rathvon, Hist. Lane. Co., 

 i86g, p. 501. 



Luzerne Co. — " I have two specimens secured near Pittston." — Campbell, 

 1902. The identity of these is questionable. — Rhoads, 1902. 



McKean Co. — " There are a few martens yet, back in the forests, but 

 they are scarce. The last in this Co. that I know of were caught by Thos. 

 Mulkins in November and December, 1899. He caught 6 of them on 

 Haven's Brook, Norwich twp. The last one he had mounted, and is now in 

 his parlor at Eldred. It is a nice specimen, but very light-colored, about as 

 light as I ever saw one." — C. W. Dickinson, 1901. 



Monroe and Pike Cos. — "I could hear of no specimens of this former resi- 

 dent having been captured for many years." — Rhoads, Proc. A. N. Sci., 1894, 



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Potter Co. — "I received 22 pelts from a hunter who trapped them on the 

 east fork of the Sinnemahoning during th1| winter of i894-'95." — Larrabee, 

 1896. "Formerly abundant here and easily caught for its fur. I have caught 

 them as late as 1870, and a few have been caught later." — .Austin, 1900. See 

 under Clinton Co., Young Woman's Creek Records. — Rhoads. 



South Mountain, Bedford and 'Somerset Co. regions. — " Dr. M. W. Strealy, 

 hunter and naturalist of Chambersburg, Pa., took considerable pains to in- 

 quire of old hunters of the South Mountain region concerning the presence 

 of this animal. Among these persons was an old furrier whose father had all 

 his life been in the same trade in that section. Another informant was a 

 mountaineer 98 years old. Mr. Strealy states that neither of these men had 

 ever heard of the marten or sable being taken in the South Mountain or the 

 counties of that region." — Rhoads, Proc. A. N. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 218. 



