124 



1891. Butler, A. "W. Our smaller mammals and their relation to Hor- 

 ticulture. Transactions Indiana Horticultural Society, 1891, vol. 

 XXXI, pp. 117-123. 



Repaged and issued separately. 



1892. Our Indiana shrews. Proc. Indiana Acad, of Science, 1891, 



pp. 161-163. 



1892. Merriam, Dr. O. Hart. The occurrence of Cooper's Lemming 

 Mouse (Synapiomys cooperi) in the Atlantic states. Proc. Biol. Soc^ of 

 Washington, vol. VII, 1882, pp. 175-177. 



1893. Fisher, A. K., M. D. The Hawks and Owls of the United 

 States in their relations to Agriculture. V. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Division of Ornithology and ^Mammalogy, Bulletin No. 3. 



Refers to mammals used as food. 



1892. Dury, Charles. Zoological notes. What I found in the nest of 

 a field mouse. Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1892, p. 183. 



1893. Cox, Ulysses O. A list of the birds of Randolph county, Ind., 

 with some notes on the mammals of the same county. Ornithologist 

 and Oologist, vol. XVIII, pp. 2-3. 



PKELIMINABY LIST OF INDIANA MAMMALS. 



1. Didelphu virginiana Shaw, Common Opossum. 

 Randolph county (Cox). 



Wabash county. Specimen in Galbraith's collection. 

 Benton county. One sent me from there the winter of 1889-90. 

 Carroll county, Vigo county, Monroe county. I have seen it in all of 



these counties (Evermann). 

 Parke county. W. S. Blatchley's brother caught seven in one night the 



fall of 1890 near Rockville. Very plenty (M. H. Anderson). Many 



are brought in every winter to the market at Terre Haute. 

 Pike county. (Abundant), Indiana Farmer. 

 Howard county. Formerly abundant until the winter of 1855-6, when 



they were almost exterminated by severe winter. Since that time 



have been very scarce. One seen winter of 1885-6 (A. W. Moon). 

 Huntington county. Wm. E. Bardsley reports an opossum killed near 



Pleasant Plain the winter of 1892-3. 

 Hendricks county. Unusually abundant near Hadley winter of 1892-3. 



Reported in Indiana Farmer, Feb. 4, 1893, (A. Hadley). 

 Franklin county. Have not been noticeably abundant for a number of 



