LIST OF MAMMALS COLLECTED BY W. W. PRICE AND 

 ASSISTANTS, CHIEFLY IN CALIFORNIA. 



The species enumerated in the following list were collected by 

 W. W. Price and his assistants in 1895 chiefly in California in the 

 counties of San Bernardino, Monterey, San Mateo, Santa Clara, 

 Calusa, Lake, Calaveras, Eldorado, Amidor and Alpine, as well 

 as in the contiguous county of Douglas, State of Nevada. The 

 collection comprised over 2,500 specimens, and a number of the 

 species were represented by large and valuable series, exhibiting 

 both sexes at all ages, affording a good idea of the changes that 

 occurred in the color of the pelage, and of the distribution of the 

 species over a considerable portion of California. The localities 

 ranged from those on the coast, such as Portola, Carmel, etc., to 

 an altitude of 10,000 feet, like that of Pyramid Peak, Eldorado 

 Co.; while Anderson's Ranch on the Carson Plains, Douglas Co. , 

 Nevada, and San Antonio in San Bernardino Co., Southern 

 California, represent the dry and desert-like regions. 



While engaged with this collection I received valuable assist- 

 ance from my friends Dr. J. A. Allen, Curator of Vertebrate 

 Zoology in the New York Museum of Natural History, and Dr. 

 C. H. Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, to whom I desire to express my thanks. 

 The large collection of Mammals and the fine library of the New 

 York Museum afforded great facilities towards the satisfactory 

 completion of my work. 



ORDER RODENTIA. 



FAMILY SCIURIDCE. 

 i. Sciurus fossor. 



Sciurus fossor. Peale, Mam. and Birds. U. S. Expl. Exp., 

 1848, p. 55. 



Eight specimens from the Snow Mountains, Calusa and Lake 

 counties, and three from Swiss River, Calaveras Co. 



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