298 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Notable Shipments — (Continued). 



DRESSED WEIGHT 

 RAILROAD STATION. CONSIGNEE. POUNDS. 



Beaver River C. Ballou, Utica 205 



Forestport W. Cushman, Utica 209 



Fulton Chain II. Baldwin, New York 210 



Lake Clear Junction . . . E. E. Mogg, Syracuse 220 



Lake Clear Junction . . . Frank Bayer, Oswego 201 



Lake Kushaqua T. W. Hitts, New York 207 



Lake Kushaqua Alfred Anglin, Rockland Lake .... 205 



Loon Lake James Dowie, Utica 202 



McKeever Walter Springs, Remsen 217 



Paul Smith's S. E. Sully, Buffalo 210 



Saranac Lake F. Byer, Lake Clear • 210 



Saranac Inn W. McDonald, Saranac Lake .... 205 



Tupper Lake Junction . . . J. H. McLean, Elmira 225 



Several accounts of deer weighing above the average have also been 

 received from hunters who did not ship their deer out of the woods. Madi- 

 son Tooley, a guide, got a sixteen-point buck which weighed 255 pounds 

 dressed, and which was one of the largest deer killed during recent years in 

 Jefferson county. This deer will be mounted and kept for exhibition. 



John Farrell, of Clayburgh, Clinton county, killed a deer which weighed 

 215 pounds, and which he found wounded near Chazy Lake. The wounded 

 animal attacked the hunter, who finally killed it with an axe. 



A fifteen-pronged buck was shot on Peaked Mountain by George W. 

 Aldrich, of Norwich, Chenango county. A peculiarity about this deer was 

 the growth of an extra prong on the antlers which extended forward on each 

 side of the head about ten inches and which were nearly horizontal in their 

 projection when the head was carried erect. On account of the strange and 

 unusual appearance which these prongs gave to the antlers, the head was 

 mounted and will be kept as a highly prized specimen. 



WI)ite Deer 



Each year brings its reports of white or albino deer killed in the Adiron- 

 dacks. Few of these are wholly white, and most of them are deer which 

 simply have a lighter colored coat than is usual. In some cases the coat is 



