EXTERMINATED AND EXTINCT UNGULATES. 
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a week had killed a Moose-calf near by that was too young to 
have left its parents, and claimed to have found tracks of both the 
old ones. We lived on her tenderloin — after getting her to camp 
under great difficulties — for about a week. 
“ On our way out of the region, whence we made our exit at 
the First Saranac Lake, we stopped at Bartlett’s on Round Lake, 
which appeared to be a famous and extensive rendezvous for 
hunters and guides ; and on the register there we recorded con- 
spicuously opposite our names our notable, albeit fortuitous, 
achievement.! * | I think we recorded it as weighing about 800 lbs. 
and standing about seven feet high in the hump. The derisive 
incredulity which this entry evoked was only silenced by the pro- 
duction of the hide, which we had brought with us.” 
No credence is to be given to the report, widely circulated 
by the press, that a Moose has during the past winter been seen 
near the Ox-bow on Moose River, in the Woodhull Lake region. 
Note 2. — That the American Elk or Wapiti ( Cervus Canadensis) 
was at one time common in the Aclirondacks there is no question. 
A number of their antlers have been discovered, the most perfect of 
which that I have seen is in the possession of Mr. John Constable. 
It was found in a bog on Third Lake of Fulton Chain, in Herkimer 
County. 
Dr. DeKay (Zool. N. Y., Part I, 1842, pp. 1 20-1 21) speaks of a 
specimen consisting of “ a portion ot a pair of horns attached to a 
fragment of skull,” which was “dug up near the mouth of the 
Raquet River in this State, near the forty-fifth parallel of latitude. 
It bears a label in the handwriting of Dr. Mitchill, purporting that it 
* Upon the receipt of the above letter, early in October, 1883, I hoped to ascertain the exact date of 
the killing of this Moose, and at once wrote to Mr. Bartlett, asking if he would consult his old 
register and send me a copy of the entry here referred to. Unfortunately, his reply has not yet 
been received. [Since the above went to press I have learned of Mr. Bartlett’s death.] 
