200 ALPHABETICAL INDEX-CHECKLIST 



MARSUPIALS, bandicoot (Rhynchomeles), 21; cuscus (Pha- 



langer), 26. 

 RODENTS, common rat (Rattus), 114; house mouse (Mus), 



113; mosaic-tailed rat {Melomys), 116. 



Chatham Islands, South Pacific 



RODENTS, common rats (Rattus), 114; house mouse (Mus), 



113. 

 SEALS, SEA LIONS, crab-eating seal (Lobodon), 105; New 



Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus), 103; Weddell seal 



(Leptonychotes), 105. 



Christmas Island, Indian Ocean 



BATS, common bat (Pipistrellus), 56; flying fox (Pteropus), 



48. 

 INSECTIVORES. white-toothed shrew (Crocidura), 40. 

 RODENTS, common rats (Rattus), 114; house mouse (Mus), 



113. 



Christmas Island, Polynesia, and group (Palmyra, Washing- 

 ton, Fanning, Walker, Jarvis) 



RODENTS, common rat (Rattus), 114; house mouse (Mus), 

 113. 



Cook Islands (Hervey), Polynesia 



RODENTS, common rat (Rattus), 114; house mouse (Mus), 

 113. 



Coral Sea, southwest Pacific 



DUGONG (Dugong), 136. 



WHALES, beaked whale (Mesoplodon), 131 ; blackfish or pilot 

 whale (Globiocephalus), 132; bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursi- 

 ops), 134; common dolphin (Delphinus), 134; Cuvier's 

 or goosebeak whale (Ziphius), 131; false killer whale 

 (Pseudorca), 132; gray or Risso's dolphin (Grampus), 

 131; killer whale (Orcinus), 131; pygmy right whale 



