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Some of the magazine articles appearing in recent years are very inter- 

 esting, and while, on the whole, rather inclined to overcoloration, are not 

 entirely without value for reference purposes. 

 Among those deserving of mention are : 

 " The Beaver," by H. P. Wells. Ills, by A. B. Frost. Harper's Magazine, Jan., 



1889. 

 " The Story of the Beaver," by William Davenport Hulbert. Ills, by A. Radcliffe 



Dugmore. McClure's Magazine, April, 1901. 

 " Haunts of the Beaver," by A. R. Dugmore. Everybody's Magazine, Dec., 1901. 

 " The Story of the Trapper (1. The Taking of the Beaver) ", by A. C. Laut. The 



Outing Magazine, Jan., 1902. 

 " Beaver Ways," by Frank H. Risteen. Ills, by Tappan Adney. The Outing 



Magazine, March, 1903. 

 " Bringing Back the Beaver: Its Successful Reintroduction to the Adirondack 

 Region," by Harry V. Radford. Ills, from photographs by the author. The 

 Four-Track News, April, 1906. 



So far as I am aware, no monograph has heretofore appeared upon the 

 Adirondack beaver exclusively ; and the only serious treatment the subject 

 has received consists of two brief passages in works devoted to mammals in 

 general. James E. DeKay's Zoology of New York, published in 1842, has 

 twelve hundred words upon the beaver, and Dr. C. Hart Merriam's Mammals 

 of the Adirondacks (1882 and 1884) has eighteen hundred words. Beyond 

 these, except for seven hundred words of Madison Grant's article, previously 

 mentioned, I am not aware that the beaver of our Adirondack region, has 

 ever received separate treatment, save in insignificant paragraphs or mere 

 sentences contained in brief and doubtful articles upon the wild animals of 

 this locality. Miller's Preliminary List of New York Mammals, published 

 in 1899 as a bulletin of the New York State Museum, which is the only 

 serious work upon the quadrupeds of this State since Merriam's treatise, 

 is silent upon the beaver so far as new facts go. He has simply this: " The 

 beaver is probably nearly exterminated if not quite extinct in New York. 

 Concerning the animal's status I have nothing to add to the account given 

 by Merriam in 1884." 



