Bibliography of the Cincinnati Fauna. 
Contains (pp. 79-83) the original description, illustrated, of the giant 
beaver (Castoroides ohioensis), and references to other fossil mammalian re- 
mains found near Nashport, Ohio. 
1838. KirtLanp, J. P. Report on the Zoology of Ohio, by Prof. J. P. 
1846-48. 
Kirtland, M.D. <Second Annual Report on the Geological 
Survey of the State of Ohio. By W. W. Mather, principal 
geologist, and the several assistants. Columbus. Samuel 
Medary, printer to the State, 1838, pp. 157-200. 
The first systematic work on Ohio Zoology. Contains catalogues of mam. 
mals, birds, reptiles, fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks, found in Ohio; 
enumerating, under mammals, 50 species; birds, 223 species; reptiles 
(proper) 27 species; batrachians, 21 species; fishes, 72 species; crus- 
taceans, 2 species; mollusks, 169 species. 
Twenty-five pages following the catalogues proper, are occupied with 
notes on various species, amongst which occur numerous references to 
specimens taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 
The list of mammals is a nominal one of fifty species, three of which 
are synonyms; and a fourth, the European Arvicola amphibus, is included 
either through misinformation or error in identification. Short notes on 
thirty-three species are given in an appendix, entitled ‘“‘ Notes and Ob- 
servations.” 
CroGHAN, Grorce. Journal of George Croghan. <The 
Olden Time; a monthly publication devoted to the Preserva- 
tion of Documents and other Authentic Information in rela- 
tion to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Im- 
provement of the country around the head ofthe Ohio. Edited 
by Neville B. Craig, Esq. Two volumes, small 4to, Pitts- 
burgh, 1846-1848. 
Not seen; this notice, from ‘“ Allen’s History of the American Bison,”’ 
p- 505, foot-note. Various references to buffalo in Ohio, in 1765. This 
same periodical contains numerous other references to buffalo between 
1770 and 1785. 
1848. Hitpreta, $8. P. Pioneer History: being an account of the first 
exaininations of the Ohio Valley, aud the early settlement of 
the Northwest Territory, chiefly from original manuscripts; 
containing the papers of Col. George Morgan; those of Judge 
Barker; the diaries of Joseph Buell and John Mathews; the 
records of the Ohio Company, etce., etc., etc., by S. P. Hildreth. 
Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., Publishers. New York: A. 
S. Barnes & Co. 1848. 
Reference to deer (and turkeys), p 358; to deer and buffalo, p. 485; 
panther (at Belpre, 1794-5), p. 497; wolves, beaver, p. 498. Records last 
beaver seen ‘‘on Muskingum, near Captain Devoll’s mill, about the year 
1805, and was trapped by Israel Williams.” 
