INTRODUCTION XI 



Mammals represented in U. S. National Museum collections — Continued 



Families 



Cetacea 



Ziphiidae . . . 



Physeteridae . 



Kogiidae . . . 



Monodontidac . 



Dephinidae . . 



Eschrichtiidae . 



Balaenopteridae 



Balaenidae . . 

 Carnivoka 



Canidae . . . 



Ursidae .... 



Procyonidae 



Mustelidae . . 



Viverridae . . 



Felidae .... 



PlNNIPEDIA 



Otariidae . . . 



Odobenidae . . 



Phocidae . . . 

 SlRENIA 



Trichechidae . 

 Perissodacttla 



Tapiridae . . . 

 Artiodactyla 



Tayassuidae 



Cervidae . . . 



Antilocapridae . 



Bovidae . . . 



Totals . . 



Hypo- 

 types 



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An asterisk is placed after the name of each form represented in the national 

 collection. A dagger indicates that the type is there also. It is to be understood 

 that, especially in unrevised genera, the indication that a form is in the collection 

 implies nothing more than the presence of a specimen of the animal on which 

 a name was based. 



The sequence of orders and families is in its main features that adopted by 

 Simpson in "The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals" 

 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, Oct. 5, 1945) . 



Under every species and subspecies reference is made to the first publication 

 of the specific or subspecific name. To this, when necessary, is added (a) 

 reference to first use of the current binomial or trinomial; (b) in the case of 

 species described before 1884, but not at that date admitted as valid, reference 



