286 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Records have been received of about 75 bears killed subsequent to 

 June 30 of this year, but it is thought best to reserve the details for next 

 year's report, which will contain the number killed to June 30, 1906. The 

 largest bear of which record has been received was that killed in Sullivan 

 county on November 1, 1905, by Mr. Charles Monroe. It weighed 480 

 pounds. Not more than four bears a year are reported as exceeding 400 

 pounds in weight. About 1 2 per cent, of those killed weigh between 300 and 

 400 pounds, about 32 per cent, weigh between 200 and 300 pounds, about 

 40 per cent, between 100 and 200 pounds, and the remainder less than 

 100 pounds. 



Efforts to secure more accurate reports of the bears killed will be made 

 next season, and we will also seek to arrange for a tabulation of the ship- 

 ments. The only reports received from shippers during the past season 

 came from the National Express Company, and included one bear of 40 

 pounds weight, consigned to E. V. Russell, of Binghamton; another of 165 

 pounds, consigned to Sukest, Brooklyn; one of 40 pounds, consigned to John 

 Honecker, Buffalo, all three shipped from North Creek; one of 165 pounds, 

 consigned to C. H. Striever, Ballston, and one of 125 pounds, consigned to 

 Daniel Foote, of Ballston, both shipped from Stony Creek. 



Tl)e Reaver 



Since the publication of the last annual report, six of the seven beaver 

 purchased by the State with the $500 appropriation granted for this purpose 

 by the Legislature, have been successfully liberated in the Adirondacks. 

 One of the animals died after liberation, as the result of injuries sustained 

 some months before in a conflict with another beaver. 



Through an arrangement, entered into with the Brown's Tract Guides 

 Association, the beaver were kept during the winter in an artificial fish 

 pond at the State hatchery at Old Forge, the guides bearing the expenses 

 connected with their care. Mr. J. Edward Ball, of the Guides' Association, 

 and Mr. Henry Davidson, then in charge of the hatchery, constructed three 

 very serviceable houses, which were raised on posts just above the water, 

 and provided with shelves covered with straw to which the beaver could 

 retire in case of a sudden rise of the pond. In this way they were kept until 



