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In 1834, I am informed by Mr. Philip Cliurch, a stag was killed at Bolivar, Allegany 

 county. My informant saw tlie animal, and his description corresponds exactly with 

 this species." — De Kay, Zoology of New Yorlc, 1842. 



" That the American Elk, or Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), was at one time common 

 in the Adirondacks, there is no question. * * * When the species was extermi- 

 nated here is not known. * * * I do not regard the account of Messrs. Beach and 

 Vaughan as trustworthy, for the reason that I have never heen able to find a hunter in 

 this wilderness, however aged,' who had ever heard of a living elk in the Adiron- 

 dacks." — Merriam, Mammals of the Adirondacks, 1884. 



NOTE III. 



The Moose. 



The male moose exhibited was killed in the town of Ohio, Herkimer county. New 

 York, in January, 1851. Ten years later the moose was exterminated in New York. 



NOTE rv. 



The Hakbok Sbai, Common Seal. 



Harbor seals " are now comparatively rare in our waters, but were formerly very 

 abundant. A certain reef of rocks in the harbor of New Y^ork is called Bobbins reef, 

 from the numerous seals which were accustomed to resort there, robin or robyn being 

 the name in Dutch for seal. At some seasons, even at the present day, they are very 

 numerous, particularly about the Execution Rocks in the Sound, but their visits 

 appear to be very capricious. * * * In the Kingston (U. C.) Ghronicle of Feb- 

 ruary, 1823 or 1824, there is a notice of a seal having been taken on the ice on Lake 

 Ontario, near Cape Vincent (Jefferson county), this State. The paper gives no descrip- 

 tion, but asserts, on the authority of Indian traders, that seals ha^e heretofore been 

 seen on the borders of the lake, though the circumstance is one of rare occurrence." 

 — De Kay, Zoology of New York, 1842. 



According to the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, a seal was captured on 

 the ice on Lake Champlain, a little south of Burlington, in February, 1810, and one 

 was killed upon the ice between Burlington and Port Kent, in February, 1846. 



" During the past winter one was killed on Onondaga lake that must have reached 

 this remote inland water by way of Lake Ontario. 



"I liave seen many of these seals in Long Island Sound, chiefly upon the Thimble 

 Islands; and March 25, 1879, I saw one on a rock in the Hudson river, near Sing 

 Sing." — Merriam, Mammals of the Adirondacks, 1884. 



According to newspaper reports a harbor seal was killed in the Hudson river at 

 Hyde Park in the spring of 1893. 



NOTE V. 



The Hooded Seal. 



De Kay's description of the hooded seal " was taken from an adult male captured 

 near Eastchester, about fifteen miles from the city (New York) * * * The pre- 

 ceding must be considered as the first notice of its existence within our territorial 

 limits, where it can only be regarded as a rare and accidental visitor. — De Kay, 

 Zoology of New York, 1843. 



So far as known this is the only record of the occurrence of the hooded seal in 

 New York. 



NOTE VI. 



WovEKiNB, Glutton, Cabcajou. 

 " Although we have not met with this animal, yet hunters who have killed them 

 repeatedly, and knew them well, have assured us that they are still found in the dis- 

 tricts north of Racquet Lake. It is, however, everywhere a rare species. Prof. 

 Emmons states that they still exist in the Hoosac mountains, Massachusetts. * * * 

 The Wolverine was formerly found as far south as Carolina, but its southern limits at 

 present do not extend south of the forty -second degree." — De K^y, Zoology of 

 New York, 1842. 



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