NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 173 



*Homo sapiens afer Linna?us. (Negro.) 



1758. [Homo sapiens] afer Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1. 



p. 22. 

 Type Locality. — Africa. Introduced and widely established 

 in North America. 



*Homo sapiens americanus Linnaeus. (American Indian.) 



1758. [Homo sapiens] americanus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 



vol. 1, p. 20. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern North America. 



Order RODENTIA.^^ 



Superfamily SCIUROID^. 



Family SCIURID.E. 



Subfamily Sciurin^. 



Genus MARMOTA Blumenbach.^* (Woodchucks.) 



1779. Marmota Bluivienbach, Handb. d. Naturgesch., vol. 1, 

 p. 79. Type, Mus marmota Linn.eus. 



monnx-gronx) . 



*Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus). 



1758. [Mus] monax Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 60. 

 1885. Arctomys monax True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 



p. 593. 1885. 

 1904. [Marmota] monax Troltessart, Catal. Mamm. viv. foss., 



suppl., p. 344. 

 Type Locality. — Maryland. 

 Range. — Middle eastern United States from Pennsylvania, 



New JerseyCO, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, south to the 



northern parts of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and 



Arkansas; west to eastern Kansas. 



t*Marmota monax rufescens Howell. 



1914. Marmota monax rvfescens Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 27, p. 13. February 2, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Elk River, Sherburne County, Minnesota. 



Range. — Eastern North Dakota, central and southern Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, southern Ontario, greater 

 part of New York (including Long Island), and higher parts 

 of western Massachusetts. 



*' Supergeneric groups revised by Miller and Gidley, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 8, pp. 431-448 , 

 July 19, 1918. 

 j' Revised by HoH-ell, North Amcr. Fauna, No. 37, Apr. 7, 1915. 



