JACKSON — NEW HAMPSHIRE MAMMALS 
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the basis of this account, invented the story about a shedding of the teeth. Nowa- 
days it is well known that neither the narwhal nor any other Cetacean sheds 
the teeth. 
Danish Arctic Station, Disko, Greenland. 
NOTES ON NEW HAMPSHIRE MAMMALS 
By C. F. Jackson 
During the past few years an attempt has been made to collect com- 
plete data concerning the distribution and relative abundance of the 
vertebrates of New Hampshire. In making this survey some very 
interesting mammals have been discovered which were thought to 
have been driven out of the state or exterminated long ago. 
Perhaps the most interesting discovery is that of a pair of cougars 
whose range extends along the east side of the Androscoggin River in 
the town of Cambridge to the southern shores of Lake Umbagog. Rec- 
ords of the occurrence of this species in recent years are very meager. 
For the southern part of the state below the White Mountains, the latest 
record I can find is that of a large male which was shot near Epping, 
New Hampshire, in 1870. In 1885 a specimen was taken in the White 
Mountains which is the latest record I have for the state. Rumors have 
been heard from time to time of the cougar occurring in Maine and in 
the Green Mountains of Vermont. 
Dr. E. W. Nelson of the Biological Survey has referred me to two 
records, one from Vermont and one from Maine. The latest Ver- 
mont record is furnished by Merriam in the Proceedings of the Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences (volume III, 1901, page 582). According 
to this record the last one killed was in 1894. In the same letter Doc- 
tor Nelson referred me to The American Field (volume 66, page 400) ; 
which cites the killing of a panther in Maine near Mount Kineo in 1906. 
It would seem that the species has been able to survive in the less 
frequented portions of Maine. 
It is not known whether the two panthers referred to above are male 
and female, although this is probably the case. One was seen at very 
close range by Mr. H. T. Woodward of Berlin and was thought by 
him to be a male. 
A second unusual species is the wolverine, a pair of which were found 
in 1918 in the Diamond region east of the Connecticut Lakes. Two 
young animals were taken, which would lead one to believe that the 
species was breeding to a certain extent within this v/ild region. 
