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belonged to the C. tarandus , or Rein-deer." * Dr. DeKay appends 
a table of measurements which clearly indicates that the antler in 
question was that of our common Elk, though he regarded it as per- 
taining to the fossil Elk. He mentions another antler, of a younger 
animal, which “ was thrown out by a plow on Grand Isle,” in Lake 
Champlain, and deposited in the Museum of the University of 
Vermont. 
Dr. C. C. Benton, of Ogdensburg, has several specimens, more or 
less complete. The circumference of the largest at the burr is twelve 
and one half inches; immediately below the burr ten inches. These 
specimens were discovered at Steel’s Corners in St. Lawrence County. 
Mr. Calvin V. Graves, of Boonville, N. Y., has two sections of 
Elk horns that were “ploughed up in an old beaver meadow in 
Diana,” Lewis County. 
When the species was exterminated here is not known. Dr. 
DeKay, writing in 1842, states: “ The stag is still found in the State 
of New York, but very sparingly, and will doubtless be extirpated 
before many years. Mr. Beach, an intelligent hunter on the Raquet, 
assured me that in 1836, he shot at a stag (or as he called it, an elk), 
on the north branch of the Saranac. He had seen many of the horns, 
and described this one as much larger than the biggest buck 
(C. virg ini anus), with immense long and rounded horns, with many 
short antlers. His account was confirmed by another hunter, 
Vaughan, who killed a stag at nearly the same place. They are found 
in the northwestern counties of Pennsylvania, and the adjoining 
counties of New York. In 1834, I am informed by Mr. Philip 
Church, a stag was killed at Bolivar, Allegany County. My inform- 
ant saw the animal, and his description corresponds exactly with this 
species.” f 
* This specimen is probably the source of Professor Dana’s statement . “ Remains of the Rein- 
deer have been found on Racket River,” New York (Dana’s Geology, 2d Ed., 1875, p. 568.) 
I have been unable to find a trustworthy record of the Reindeer or Caribou from this region. 
•f Zoology of New York, Part I, Mammalia, 1842, p. rig. 
