298 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



it has been thought proper to exceed these limits the localities are 

 expressly stated. 



For valuable notes and observations contained in the present paper, 

 acknowledgments are due to Dr. R. M. B3'rnes, our worthy President ; 

 to Messrs. John W. Shorten, and Charles Dur}^, the well known taxi- 

 dermists of Cincinnati ; and to Mr. Edgar R. Quick, of Brookville, 

 Indiana,* an enthusiastic naturalist and reliable observer, who has 

 contributed largely to the present knowledge of our local fauna. 



An important feature of this list, is the positive record of several 

 now extirpated species, whose former occurrence in this vicinit}^ has 

 heretofore been merely inferred ; these have been fulh^ identified 

 from their remains found, well preserved in ashes, during the excava- 

 tions conducted by the Literary and Scientific Society of Madisonville, 

 Ohio, in a prehistoric cemetery, near that place ; an account of these 

 explorations is now appearing in this Journal. f Some of these 

 records are of especial interest as regards extension of the known 

 range of the species; and others as furnishing actual evidence of the 

 changes continuall}^ occurring in our fauna. 



Supplementar}^ lists are given of species not yet identified, whose 

 known range includes this localitj'', and of extinct species whose 

 fossil remains have been found in Ohio. 



The general arrangement adopted corresponds with that of Prof. 

 Jordan's " Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States ;" 

 but Dr. Coues' "Fur-bearing Animals," and the elaborate "Mono- 

 graphs of North American Rodentia," by Coues and Allen, and of 

 North American " Chiroptera," b}^ Drs. Coues and Yarrow, have been 

 followed in the classification and nomenclature of the orders of which 

 they treat. 



A,— LIST OF IDENTIFIED SFECIES, 



Class Mammalia. 



Sub-class MoNODELPHiA : Placental Mammals. 



Order A. — Carnivora : Flesh- Eaters. 



Family I. — Felid^ : The Cats. 



1. Lynx canadensis, Rafinesque. — Canada Lynx. — Identified from 

 a nearly entire skull and other portions of the skeleton, found in the 



* About forty miles N. W. of Cincinnati, 

 t This Volume, pp. 40-68 ; 128-139. 



