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Uroeyon cinereo-argentatm ia a very long name for the Grey Pox, still common through- 

 out the State. 



Muslela amerkiana, the Pine Marten, is extinct m Ohio. 



Ptitoriua vulgarius, and P. ermlneua, the Brown and White Weasles, are still common in 

 Ohio. 



P. Vison the Mink, is still common in all portions of the State. 



Gulo luscus, the Wolveriae, is probably extinct in the State. I was in at the death ot 

 one in H42, near Toledo, but have heard of uoue since. 



Lutra canadensis, the Otter, is still occasionally found in most parts of the State. 



Taxidea ammcana, American Badger, is, probably, extinct in the State. There was a 

 eolony of them in Lucas couDty .as late as 1835'; since then I have heard of none being 

 taken. 



Mephitis mephitka, the Skunk, is quite abundant all over the State. 



Ureus americanus, the Black and the Brown Bear, are still, occasionally, found in the 

 ngrthern tier of counties of Ohio. 



Proci/on lotor, the Raccoon, is still abundant. 



Of the Marsupials, the Oppossum is still found in most i)art'B of Ohio. 



The Cervus cauadehsis. Elk or Wapiti, and Cariacus virginianus, the Ked Deer, were 

 the only members of the Cervidas common to the State. Elk disappeared about fifty 

 years ago. The Red Deer is found in the northern part of the State, though not in great 

 abundance. 



The Moose and Caribou, I believe, never inhabited Ohio. 



Of the Rodents native to Ohio, the Beaver, I believe, is the only one entirely extinct 

 in the State. 



Very truly, 



Emokt D. Potter. 



A.KCTOMYS MONAX. 



Regarding the arboreal habits of the Woodchuck I quote the following 

 interesting note from a letter received from Dr. J. M. Wheaton, under 

 date of Columbus, Ohio, November 29, 1878 : 



"I can confirm all that Mr. Laugdon says of the Woodchuck climbing trees. The 

 first one I ever killed (about 18.55) I shot from an oak tree, about twenty feet from the 

 ground. It had started down head first, in the endeavor to reach the ground, when my 

 dog discovered it and called a halt. I shot at it vrith fine bird shot, and it fell to the 

 ground, and with the dog rolled to the bottom of a steep hill, abont twenty feet — arrived 

 at the foot of the hill it -was dead ; and " if anything more is necessary,'' as the Irishman 

 said, I can show you the place and the skull. The last one I saw was .iboiit May 1, 

 1878. It tumbled about five feet from a, beech tree to the top rail of a fence and 

 thence to the ground, and soon disappeared in its hole in a fence corner of a clover 

 field, near the wooded bank of a stream.'' 



