Fres., 1912. Mammats or ILLINors AND WISCONSIN——Cory. 349 
Description — General color grizzly gray; head brown, with a patch of 
white below and behind the ears and a white stripe on middle of 
crown extending from the nose to the nape; feet and greater portion 
of legs brownish black, the claws pale, large, often 1.50 inches in 
length; chin and upper throat dull white, rest of under parts buffy 
white or yellowish white; tail tinged with yellowish brown. 
Measurements — Length, about 27 to 29 in. (691 to 741 mm.); tail 
vertebre, about 5 in. (125 to 136 mm.); hind foot, 3.85 in. (95 to 
105 mm.). 
The Badger still occurs in more or less numbers in various localities 
throughout Wisconsin and occasionally in the northern two-thirds of 
Illinois. In the early days it was common. Kennicott (1854) gives it 
as formerly common in Cook County and states that at that time it was 
still common farther south (/. ¢., p. 578). Brayton (1882) mentions a 
Badger taken in Kankakee County, Illinois, in 1857. Wood says: ‘It 
is reported that a specimen was killed a few miles north of Urbana in 
1908. The dead animal was seen by reliable persons, but I have been 
unable to verify the identification by seeing the skin” (/. ¢., p. 574). 
In 1909 it was reported by hunters to be not uncommon in Jo Daviess 
and Stephenson counties, Illinois. Kennicott says: ‘In Illinois badgers 
were once numerous at least as far south as the middle of the state; 
and were seen thirty years ago near the Kaskaskia River. They still 
exist in De Kalb County”’ (J. ¢., 1858, p. 250). 
There are numerous records from Wisconsin. I have examined 
specimens from Rock and Dodge counties and one which was claimed 
to have been killed near Lake Geneva, Walworth Co.,in 1902. Dr. 
H. V. Ogden of Milwaukee has skulls in his collection from Douglas 
and Milton counties. Mr. W. E. Snyder has five specimens in his 
collection taken in Dodge County between 1902 and 1908, and he 
informs me that at least five others were killed in Dodge County dur- 
ing the summer of 1902. Hollister records it from Delavan, Walworth 
Co., in 1908 (J. c., p. 141); and Jackson records ro specimens cap- 
tured within a radius of 8 miles of Milton, Rock Co., from 1900 to 
1902 (J. c., p. 28). I am informed by reliable persons that during the 
past five years (1906 to 1911) one or more specimens have been 
taken in Marinette, Florence, Forest, Marathon, Taylor, Iron, Douglas, 
Rusk, Polk and Buffalo counties. 
While the Badger was probably common in portions of Ilinois and 
Wisconsin in early days, it was much more so farther west. Dr. 
Elliott Coues writes: “I have seen Badgers in countless numbers nearly 
throughout the region of the upper Missouri River and its tributaries. 
I do not see how they could well be more numerous anywhere. In 
