. Annual report . f two brief passages in works devoted to mammals ingeneral. James E. DeKays Zoology of New York, published in 1842, hastwelve hundred words upon the beaver, and Dr. C. Hart Merriams Mammalsof the Adirondacks (1882 and 1884) has eighteen hundred words. Beyondthese, except for seven hundred words of Madison Grants article, previouslymentioned, I am not aware that the beaver of our Adirondack region, hasever received separate treatment, save in insignificant paragraphs or meresentences contained in brief and doubtful articles upon the wild animals ofthis locality. Millers Prelim
. Annual report . f two brief passages in works devoted to mammals ingeneral. James E. DeKays Zoology of New York, published in 1842, hastwelve hundred words upon the beaver, and Dr. C. Hart Merriams Mammalsof the Adirondacks (1882 and 1884) has eighteen hundred words. Beyondthese, except for seven hundred words of Madison Grants article, previouslymentioned, I am not aware that the beaver of our Adirondack region, hasever received separate treatment, save in insignificant paragraphs or meresentences contained in brief and doubtful articles upon the wild animals ofthis locality. Millers Preliminary List of New York Mammals, publishedin 1899 as a bulletin of the New York State Museum, which is the onlyserious work upon the quadrupeds of this State since Merriams treatise,is silent upon the beaver so far as new facts go. He has simply this: Thebeaver is probably nearly exterminated if not quite extinct in New the animals status I have nothing to add to the account givenby Merriam in
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