202 Additions to Mammal Paiina. [zoe 



Nothing is attempted in the present article but to give the names, 

 authority, citation of pubHcation 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 wTiters 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 noticed 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. 



The majority of the additions here given as will be seen were 

 described in — 



North American Fauna, No. i, issued October 25, 1889. 



" 2, " October 30, 1889. 



" ' " 3, " September II, 1890. 



" 4, " October 8, 1890. 



" 5. " July 30, 1891. 



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 



