Bulletin Wisconsin ya.fural Hi^tonj Society. [ Vol. 6. Xos. 3-4. 
Presumably antlers and other remains of this deer have been 
found in many parts of southern and central \Msconsin. but their 
occurrence seems not to have been noted in publications which 
zoologists would naturally consult, therefore I have thoug]:t it 
desirable to here put on record two occurrences from the soutliern 
part of the state. 
In or before 1889 the museum received from INIr. Fred. Mil- 
ler a portion of an antler, probobly cast, that was dug up four feet 
below the surface at ^Miller's Brewery in A\'auwatosa a few miles 
west of this city. 
In 1899 ]\[r. Frank Clark plowed up on his farm in Pewaukee. 
near the river, a pair of cast antlers. These were recently pre- 
sented by his widow, to ^Ir. Stanley G. Haskins who has since 
given them to the Public ^Museum. The antlers were originally 
of good size but are now considerably reduced by complete loss 
of some of the tines and the loss of the ends of all but one of the 
others and the cutting off of the distal half of one antler, probablv 
by the plov.- that brought it to the surface. Their loss of animal 
matter seems to have progressed as far as is common to mastodon 
bones recovered from eastern marshes : carrying: conviction that 
the antlers have lain buried many years. Minute root plants 
have penetrated the cellular tissues exposed by the removal of the 
ends of the tines. 
It would be of interest should some one. having: the requisite 
time at their disposal, collect the credible references to the occur- 
rence of the elk living in Wisconsin that presumably are embodied 
in many historical works, narratives of earlv voyages, settlers, etc. 
The work mio:ht be frau<:rht with some difificultv as this as well as 
the buck of the white-tailed deer have frequently been called Stag. 
1. The Antelope and Deer of America. John Dean Caton. pi>-s. 
78 — SO. 
2. Dr. P. R. Hoy. The Larg-er Wild Animals That Have Become 
Extinct in Wisconsin. Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sciences. Arts and Lett<;rs. 
Vol. V, p. 256. 
.3. List of the Mammals of Wisconsin by INIoses Strong' in Geology 
of Wisconsin. Vol. 1. p. 437. 
4. A Preliminary List of Wisconsin Mammals, Hartley H. T. 
Jackson, Bull. Wisconsin Xat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 6, p. 15. (Apr. 190S.) 
