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MUBID^. 



Mus musculus, Linn., (House Mouse): Found about buildings, and in cultivated 

 fields. (Introduced.) 



Neotoma floridana, Say <fe Ord., (Wood Rat; Pack Rat): Common; lives in holes 

 among rocks, and in willow brush along streams. 



Hesperomys leucopus sonoriensis, LeC, (White-footed Mouse): Very numerous in 

 fields, and about houses and barns. 



Hesijeromys leucogaster, Maxim., (Mole Mouse(: Common in fields, and often found 

 about farm buildings. 



Ochetodon humilis, Au3. & Bach., (Little Harvest Mouse): Common in fields, and 

 occasionally found about buildings; seen in the fields most frequently when the ground 

 is covered with snow. 



Arvicola austerus, LeC, (Prairie Meadow Mouse): Common; found in moist bot- 

 tom lands and cultivated fields. 



Fiber zibethicus, Cnv., (Musk Rat): Numerous along streams; solitary individuals, 

 which were perhaps migrating, have occasionally been found at a considerable dis- 

 tance from water. 



HXSTBIOID^. 



Erethizon dorsatus eplicanthus, Brandt, (Yellow-haired Porcupine): Found among 

 bluffs, and where there is timber; not common. 



LEPOBID.E. 



Lepus campestris, Bach., (White-tailed Jack Rabbit): Numerous; lives in burrows 

 on the open prairie. 



Lepus sylvatieus, Bach., (Cotton-tail Rabbit): Very common among bluffs, in brush 

 along streams, and about cultivated fields. 



Lepus callotis texianus, Waterh., (Black-tailed Jack Rabbit): Lives in burrows on 

 the open prairie; very common. 



• THE ANHINGA. 

 {Anhinga anhinga Linn.) 



BY N. S. GOSS. 



Habitat, tropical and subtropical America, north to South Carolina, southern Kan- 

 sas, and western Mexico. 



This species was captured within the State, in the Solomon valley, in August, 1881, 

 by Mr. C. W. Smith, of Stockton; and May 1st, 1888, Mr. Daniel Lambert, of Wilburn, 

 Ford county, shot in the northern part of Meade county, on Crooked Creek, five of 

 these birds, out of a small flock that arrived a few days before, and together. There 

 is quite a thick grove of trees along the creek in this vicinity, and (it may have been 

 disturbed) it is possible they might have nested there, and it may have been their 

 occasional breedine-ground before the settlement of the county. The first time I met 

 with the birds was at 'the mouth of the San Jacinto river, and on Buffalo bayou, 

 Texas, during the last of March and first of April. I was too early for their eggs, 

 but before I left they had commenced building their nests in the trees. The birds 

 are more or less gregarious, roosting in small flocks at night in the tree-tops, and 

 during the day, when at rest, are to be seen perched upon an old stub, or the lower 

 branches of trees over the water. I found them very shy, and ever upon the alert, 

 darting from their perch at the sight of an intruder, and disappearing beneath the 

 water without scarcely leaving a ripple upon its surface, coming up hundreds of 



