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Mr. Samuels, has done more to increase our knowledge of their 

 history than Mr. J. W. P. Jenks, of Middleboro'. From this local- 

 ity Mr. Jenks has sent large collections of the smaller species to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, which have been carefully worked up hy 

 Professor S. F. Baird in his invaluable Report on the Mammals of 

 North America,* and by Dr. H. Allen in his recent excellent Mono- 

 graph of the North American Bats.f In the Journal and Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, among the very few notices 

 of our Mammals, is an important paper by the Rev. John Bachman on 

 the Mole Shrews (genus Scalops),\ in which a new species (S. Breweri) 

 is described from specimens from this State contributed by Dr. Brewer. 

 In Professor Baird's Report on North American Mammals two species 

 of Arvicola (A. Breweri and A. rujidorsum) are also described as new, 

 solely from specimens from Massachusetts ; the first was collected by 

 Dr. Brewer on Muskeget Island. (On these see remarks beyond.) 

 In February, 1863, Professor A. E. Verrill mentions, in a valuable 

 contribution on the Shrews of New England, § the first known occur- 

 rence of a Neosorex (N. palustris) in this State. 



The more important publications on the Mammals of adjoining States, 

 which in this connection demand a passing notice, are the. Rev. J. H. 

 Linsley's "Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut,"|| Dr. J. E. De 

 Kay's well-known Report on the Mammals of New York, and Profes- 

 sor Zadoc Thompson's notes on those of Vermont. % Mr. Linsley's list 

 numbers seventy-one species, embracing the marine and domesticated, and 

 nine that are merely nominal. Removing the latter, the eight domes- 

 tic, and two (" Arvicola Jloridanus Ord " and " Phoca grcenlandica ? 

 Mull.") of doubtful reference, leaves fifty-two as the number of valid 

 indigenous and naturalized species (the latter being the three species of 

 Mus), ten of which are marine and the remaining forty terrestrial. 

 Two bats {Vespertilio subulatus Say and Scotophilus noctivagans = V. 

 noctivagans Cooper) and one shrew (Soi-ex platyrhinus) are given in 



* Pacific Railroad Reports of Expl. and Surv., VIII, 1857. 



t Monograph of the Bats of North America. By H. Allen, M. D. Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections, June, 1864. 



\ Proc, Vol. I, p. 40, 1841; Journ., Vol. IV, p. 4G, 1842. 



§ Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., Vol. IX, 164. 



|| Am. Journ. of Science and Arts, XLIII (Oct. 1842), pp. 345-354. 



Tf History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical, etc. By Zadoc Thompson. 

 Svo. Burlington, 1842, and Appendix, 1853. 

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