1()8 BULLETIN OF THE 



Part II. 



List of the Mammals of East Florida, with Annotations. 



FELIDJE. 



1. Felis concolor Linn€. Panther. 



Not very unfrequent in the more unsettled parts of the State. I 



saw several hunter's skins of it at Jaeksonville, said to have been taken 



up the river. 



2. Lynx rufus Rafinesque. Bay Lynx. 



Abundant. Especially numerous on the Upper St. John's and In- 

 dian Rivers, according to Mr. Maynard and others. 



CANID^. 



3. Canis lupus Linne. Gray Wolf. 



Canis lupus Linne, Syst. Nat., I, 58, 1767. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



I, 154, October, 1869 

 Canis Iiijiik, occidentalis Rich., Fauna Bor. Amor., I, 60, 1829. 

 Canis occidentalis et var. Bairi>, Mam. X. Anier., 104, 111, 113, 1857. 



Not numerous. They were described to me as being very dark col- 

 ored, or black.* This account tends to confirm the statement of Au- 

 dubon and Bachman in respect to this point. f After citing the 

 comparative frequency of this form of the common wolf in Kentucky, 

 and in several of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, as compared 

 with its occurrence in regions more to the northward and westward, 

 they observe : '" The varieties with more or less of black continue to 

 increase, as we proceed farther to the south ; and in Florida the pre- 

 vailing color of the wolves is black." } 



4. Vulpes virginianus Richardson. Gray Fox. 

 Canis virginianus Erxl., Syst. Keg. Aiiiin., 567, 1 777. — " Sciireber, Si'uigcth., 



Ill, 361, pi. xcii, 1778." 

 Canis cinereo-argentatus Kr.xi.., Syst. Reg. Anim., 567, 1778. — " ScHREBER, 



Saugeth., 360, pi. xcii." — Godman, Am. Nat. Hist., I, 280, 1826. 

 Canis griseus Bodd., Elcnchus Anim,, I, 77, 1784. 



* Since writing the above, II ed a letter from Mr. G. A. Boardman, ofMill- 



town, Me., in which he i of the Florida wolves. 



t Quad. X. Amer., Vol. II, p. 130. 



t Respecting tin- distribution of the different color races of the common wolf in North 

 America, see my paper on the Mammals of Massachusetts, Bulletin Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 Vol. I, p. 156, 1869. 



