1 84 , MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Washington Crossing where it crossed the Delaware River on the ice and was 

 lost in Bucks Co., Pa." — Ray, 1901. 



Cameron Co. — More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900. " Abel 

 Andrews and his sons have killed 23 in Cameron Co. in the years 1894 '■°' 

 1899." — Cleveland, 1901. 



Centre Co. — Less abundant than 30 years ago." — Fenton, 1900. Common 

 in Centre Co. — Rothrock, 1900. 



Clearfield Co. — More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays. 



Clinton Co. — Seth I. Nelson and his son, with whom I have hunted and 

 trapped bears near Round Island, concur in the belief that they have been 

 more numerous in that region in the past 20 years than before that time. 

 About the year 1883 the junior Nelson killed 7 bears in East Keating town- 

 ship alone. In 1893 he killed 4. In October, 1898, under his directions, I 

 trapped two in one week within a quarter mile of each other near my camp 

 on top of the mountain. Their signs in the chestnut woods were so abundant 

 and fresh that a novice might have supposed a score p'assed along these feed- 

 ing grounds every night. These conditions prevailed over a stretch of coun- 

 try reaching the borders of Cameron and Potter Cos. Wherever the mast 

 was abundant the bears had been correspondingly numerous and active. — 

 Rhoads, 1902. Increasingly common in Clinton Co. — Rothrock, 1900, 

 More plentiful than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900, 



Columbia Co. — " I have known of none in this Co. for 50 years." — Bucka- 

 lew, 1900. 



Crawford Co. — Extinct. Last one seen near Meadville in 1834. — Kirk- 

 patrick, 1900. 



Elk Co. — A few killed yearly. — Clay, 1900. "In some years as plenty as- 

 in former times. Ten or 12 killed in 1898." — Luhr, 1900. More plentiful 

 than 30 years ago. — Hays, 1900. 



Forest Co. — Very plenty. More so than 30 years ago. — Zendle, 1900^ 

 Quite plenty in big forests. — Haslet, 1900. 



Franklin Co. — " Exterminated in the South Mountain regions." — Strealy,. 

 Spg., 1897. "In November, 1897, a bear devastated the region of Cove 

 Mountain between Sylvan, Frankhn Co., and Hancock, Maryland." — Strealy,. 

 1899. 



Lackawanna Co. — I handle a skin now and then killed in this Co. — 

 Friant, 1900. 



Luzerne Co. — "Taken every winter in east Luzerne Co." — Stocker, r900^ 

 " They seem to be increasing." — Campbell, 1900. 



Lycoming Co. — " Increasing yearly. — Parker, 1900. Seely Bovier killed a 

 brown black bear in 1882 in Monet township.* It was a male J^ grown. — 

 See True, Proc. Nat. Mus., Washn., 1882, p. 653. 



McKean Co. — Nearly as plenty as 30 years ago. — W. C. Dickeson, 1900. 



