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202, Additions to Mammal Fauna. — [ ZOE 
Nothing is attempted in the present article but to give the names, 
authority, citation of publication and habitat as far as known, 
except in a few instances when changes have been made in order to 
bring the names more into conformity to the latest authorities. The 
species here enumerated are mainly or entirely additions to Mr. 
True’s list, the general order of which has been followed. Consid- 
erable shuffling of names has been done in the literature upon the 
subject during the past few years, necessitated by the acquired 
knowledge concerning the earlier writers and the species treated ot 
by them and not resulting from the whims of authors or the disre- 
gard to generally accepted principles of nomenclature. A few ot 
these changes are hoticed here when they concern a given species. 
The writings of Allen, Merriam and Mearns have supplied the 
greater portion of the present compilation, which it is hoped will 
be useful to workers in mammalogy, especially to those whose grow- 
ing interest in this class of animals may result in the future in the 
organization of a union such as has done so much for the orni- 
thology of North America. et) 
The majority of the additions here given as will be seen were 
described in— 
-. North American Fauna, No. 1, issued October 25, 1889. 
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% s eee oS July 30, I89QI. 
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. ii, 
1887-90; vol. iii, 1890-91; vol. iv, in press. 
Under North America I have included the species described from 
the country recognized by the American Ornithologists’ Union, 
To Mr. T. S. Palmer, First Assistant of the Division of Ornitho- 
logy and Mammalogy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, I 
am greatly indebted for substantial aid in the preparation of this 
paper. He has kindly read the proof sheets and supplied most of — 
the added generic names with data and about fifteen of the added 
species and noted several important eliminations in the list. 
Mr. Palmer has also made some changes in the spelling of geo- 
graphical names, in which he has followed the rulings of the U. S. 
Board on Geographic Names. When a single definite locality is 
