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BILLETIN' OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
These are the latest contemporary records of its occurrence 
in New Brunswick that I have been able to find. 
In 1873 A. Leith Adams recorded the wolf as “found in the northern 
parts only” ( Field and Forest Rambles , 295), but since he neither mentions 
it in his full descriptions of the Mammals of the Province; nor marks it upon 
the map showing their distribution, it is evident that it was then practically, 
if not actually, extinct, and his inclusion of it in his list was not based on 
his own knowledge, but was merely suppositive. 
In 1900 Mr. George A. Boardman’s List of the Animals of the Saint 
Croix Region was published ( The Naturalist of the Saint Croix, 320) and 
the wolf is given as common. This list, however, is simply Mr. Boardman’s 
summary of all the animals he had known to occur in that region during 
his long life, and is not meant to imply that the wolf occurred on the Saint 
Croix at that date, which it certainly did not. 
From time to time the New Brunswick newspapers report the reappear- 
ance of the wolf in their news columns, but invariably these reports fail 
of confirmation. In December, 1905, especially abundant and circumstantial 
reports of the appearance of wolves in Charlotte County appeared in the 
newspapers, but not only have these failed of confirmation, but it was con- 
fessed in the paper which started them ( Saint Croix Courier, January 11, 
1906) that the report originated in a story told in joke! 
Turning now to the records of bounties paid by the local 
GoYernment for the destruction of wolves, obviously an important 
and authentic source of information upon their occurrence. I 
learn from Mr. G. X. Babbitt, Deputy Receiver General of New 
Brunswick, that an act establishing a bounty of three dollars 
for each wolf destroyed was in force from 1858 to 1870. but 
that the last bounties paid thereunder were for three killed in 
1S62. 
We consider next the conclusions reached by naturalists 
who have studied the subject. 
The first to write on the occurrence of the wolf was Gesner, who originated 
the still-current statement that wolves first entered New Brunswick, fol- 
lowing the deer, in 1818 ( New Brunsuick, 358). As shown above, this is 
an error, for there is evidence that both wolf and deer occurred in the 
province at an earlier date. It is also a common belief that the wolf followed 
the deer from the Province between 1850 and 1S60. The fact that the 
deer are now again increasing in numbers keeps alive a popular expectation 
that wolves may at any time reappear in the Province. 
In his catalogue of the Mammals of New Brunswick, published by this 
Society in 1884, (Bulletin III, 37), by far the best which has yet appeared, 
