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Urocyon cinereo-argentatus is a very long name for the Grey Fox, still common through- 
out the State. 
Mustela americana, the Pine Marten, is extinct in Ohio. 
 -Puterius vulgarius, and P. ermineus, the Brown and White Weasles, are still common in 
Ohio. 
P. Vison the Mink, is still common in all portions of the State. 
Gulo luscus, the Wolverine, is probably extinct in the State. I was in at the death of 
one in 1842, near Toledo, but have heard of none since. 
Lutra canadensis, the Otter, is still occasionally found in most parts of the State. 
Taxidea americana, American Badger, is, probably, extinct in the State. There was a 
colony of them in Lucas county as late as 1833; since then [I have heard of none being 
taken. 
Mephitis mephitica, the Skunk, is quite abundant all over the State. 
Ursus americanus, the Black and the Brown Bear, are still, occasionally, found in the 
northern tier of counties of Ohio, 
Procyon lotor, the Raccoon, is still abundant. 
Of the Marsupials, the Oppossum is still found in most parts of Ohio. 
The Cervus canadensis, Elk or Wapiti, and Cariacus virginianus, the Red Deer, were 
the only members of the Cervide common to the State. Elk disappeared about fifty 
years ago. The Red Deer is fouad in the northern part of the State, though not in great 
abundance. 
The Moose and Caribou, I believe, never inhabited Ohio. 
Of the Rodents native to Ohio, the Beaver, I believe, is the only one entirely extinct 
in the State. 
Very truly, 
Emory D. POTTER. 
. Arctomys Monax. 
Regarding the arboreal habits of the Woodchuck I quote the following 
interesting note from a letter received from Dr. J. M. Wheaton, under 
date of Columbus, Ohio, November 29, 1878: 
““T can confirm all thet Mr. Langdon says of the Woodchuck climbing trees. The 
first one I ever killed (about 1855) I shot from an oak tree, about twenty feet from the 
ground. It had started down head first, in the endeavor to reach the ground, when my 
dog discovered it and called a halt. I shot at it with fine bird shot, and it fell to the 
ground, and with the dog rolled to the bottom of a steep hill, about twenty feet—arrived 
at the foot of the hill it was dead; and “‘if anything more is necessary,” as the Irishman 
said, I can show you the place and the skull. The last one I saw was about May 1, 
1878. It tumbled about five feet from a beech tree to the top rail of a fence and 
thence to the ground, and soon disappeared in its hole 1m a fence corner of a clover 
field, near the wooded bank of a stream.” 
