FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. 



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COUNTY. 



MALE. 



FEMALE. 



SEX NOT 

 STATED. 



SHOT. 



TRAPPED. 



METHOD 



OF 

 TAKING 



NOT 

 STATED. 



TOTAL. 



Cattaraugus 



Clinton . 



Delaware 



Essex 



Franklin 



Fulton . 



Greene . 



Hamilton 



Herkimer 



Lewis 



St. Lawrence 



Ulster . 



Warren . 





2 



I 

 I 

 I 

 I 

 2 



4 



5 



3 

 3 

 3 

 5 

 4 



I 



4 



2 



9 



2 

 I 



2 

 13 



26 



5 

 4 



i 



i 



2 



4 

 I 



2 



4 



2 

 2 

 I 



4 

 I 







2 

 I 



I 



I 



I 



26 



I 



2 



14 



5 

 4 



2 



5 



15 



3 







5 



i 



27 



1 



4 

 18 



7 

 8 



3 

 6 



19 

 4 



All count 



ies . 



35 34 ' 37 f 2 3 



3 



8o 



106 



The greatest weight recorded was that of a male bear shot in Catta- 

 raugus county by F. E. Morrison, of Tunesassa. It was 428 pounds. Four 

 other bears reached or exceeded a weight of 400 pounds. Seven were given 

 as weighing between 300 and 400 pounds; nineteen between 200 and 300 

 pounds, and twenty-eight from 100 to 200 pounds. Seventeen were re- 

 corded as weighing less than 100 pounds, three of which were cubs weighing 

 but ten pounds apiece. The weights of thirty of the bears reported killed 

 were not given. 



It is not probable that the above records include the entire number of 

 bears killed in the State during the time specified. The Hon. Charles C. 

 Coutant, Member of Assembly from Ulster county, declares that fully fifty 

 bears were taken in his county during 1904. If this be true more than one- 

 half were not reported to the Commission. While the law enacted by the 

 last Legislature providing for a close season on bruin requires that " Whoso- 

 ever shall kill or take a black bear shall within sixty days file with the Forest, 



