APRIL, 1902. LIST WITH NOTES OF THE MAMMALS OF DODGE CO., WIS. 12S 
appear to be Trenton and Burnett Townships, and in the country 
surrounding Horicon marsh. 
Vnlpcs fiilvus argentatus (Silver Fox.) 
Rare, if it occurs at all, at the present day. When the coun- 
try was new and but thinly settled it was occasionally taken, the 
older settlers inform me. 
I was one of three lads to start one from an arbor vitcX hedge 
within the city, where every lot had a house upon it and five blocks 
from Front street, in 1890. It was shot and its pelt sold for $35. 
Since then none have been reported. 
Lntra canadensis (Land Otter.) 
The Otter was common in our county in the days of its early 
settlement, but has been practically, perhaps wholly, exterminated. 
Adam Egotz, once a professional hunter and trapper, and a man 
whose word may be relied upon, tells me he saw the slide of one 
of these animals on the shore of Beaver Dam Lake early in the 
'90's. He endeavored to trap it, but without success, and it soon 
disappeared. 
I also have one other record of one actually captured here some 
time since 1890, but the record is not accessible at the time of 
this writing. 
Lynx rnfns (Wild Cat.) 
Not rare when the forests covered the greater part of our 
country 20 to 40 years ago. 
In October, 1898, one was killed near Alderly, this county. 
Sorex richardsoni (Richardson's Shrew.) 
Of this Shrew I have but one record, 9 (No. 1183), which a 
Shrike had impaled on a willow, in a large marsh, found on April 
I, 1S99. 
Persistent trapping in the surrounding marshes has fai'ecl to 
secure another specimen. 
Sorex personatus (Masked Shrew.) 
Of this Sorex I have five records: First, No. 1369, one 
caught by father under a barley shock, at noon (we w^ere working 
in difierent fields that day). He told me he had a shrew the like of 
which he had never seen before, and characterized it by calling it 
a ''mouse-colored Shrew." This was on July 31, 1899. 
Second — No. 1493, trapped by me along a grassy fence line on 
Jan. TO, 1900. 
