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bears, and probably only found elsewhere in the bear of the mountain 

 ranges of Tibet. (Plate !».) Its home is among the snow fields and 

 glaciers back of Mount St. Elias. Little is known of its habits, and 

 but few .specimens have ever reached museums. It is among the 

 rarest of American mammals. Its existence was vaguely known to 

 hunters and explorers for a considerable time. but the species was not 

 established until 1895. It was described by Mr. William II. Dall and 

 named in honor of Lieutenant Emmons. U.S. Army. 



Another recently known mammal of the Northwest which was 

 included in the exhibit was the caribou of the northern Rocky Moun- 

 tains, known as the ""mountain caribou." It was first made known to 

 science in Ls ( .»!> by Mr. Thompson Seton, who obtained specimens from 

 the Selkirk Ranges, British Columbia. Like Stone's sheep, it is very 

 dark in color — much more so than the well-known caribou of Maine. 



The series of large American arctic and subarctic mammals included 

 also the musk ox of the barren grounds of Canada, the white goat (or 

 goat antelope) (Plate 10), and the fur seal. 



As characteristic large mammals of the United States were exhibited 

 the prong-horn (head), the puma or cougar, the gray wolf (Plate 11), 

 Virginia deer (head), Columbia deer (head), wapiti, and bison." 



Of Central American mammals the most interesting exhibited was 

 the Caribbean seal ( Mon<i</ius tmphudix). This seal was formerly very 

 abundant in the Gulf of Mexico, but is now confined to the Gulf of 

 Campeachy, where an excellent series was recently obtained for the 

 Museum by Mr. E. W. Nelson. This was one of the first American 

 animals seen by Columbus. 



The South American mammals had as prominent representatives the 

 vicuna, a relative of the well-known llama; the jaguar; the kinkajou, 

 allied to the raccoon; the coati or coatimondi; the giant armadillo, 

 the largest of these typical South American mammals; the coypu, 

 one of the largest of rodent mammals; Azara's dog. one of the fox- 

 like small wild dogs which replace the true foxes in South America; 

 the chestnut-headed sloth; the chinchilla; the Chilean gueinal. a char- 

 acteristic deer of the southern Andes; the great ant-eater: the vis- 

 cacha, a rodent not unlike the prairie dog, very abundant on the 

 Pampas; the Patagonian cavy; the white-tipped peccary, and various 

 monkeys, such as the tufted Capuchin monkey, mantled howler, long- 

 haired spider monkey, etc. 



A very interesting small mammal was the Cuban hutia rat. Three 

 species of these rats are peculiar to Cuba, the indigenous mammal 

 fauna of which consists in addition only of certain bats and an insecti- 

 vore known as the almiqui (Solenodon). In spite of persistent efforts 

 specimens of the last could not be obtained for the Exposition. 



«Of this only u head was exhibited. Two paintings, representing the reckless 

 slaughter of the hison which led to its extermination, were also displayed. 



