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complete tables, the group without doubt is over-represented, owing 

 to the fact that stomachs of the hawks and owls have been kept 

 examined practically up to date. However this fact probably does not 

 materially affect the relative numbers of identifications for the differ- 

 ent families, as shown in the following table for mammals alone. 



Identifications of Mammalia 

 (Land mammals only) 



Group 



Further unidentified (in 

 many cases carrion) . . . . 



Carrion (identified to spe- 

 cies) 



Didelphiidae 



Talpidae 



Soricidae 



Phyllostomidae 



Vespertilioiiidae 



Molossidae 



Ursidae 



Canidae 



Procyonidae 



Mustelidae 



Felidae 



Rodentia (further unidenti- 

 fied) 



Muridae 



Geomyidae 



Heteromyidae 



Zapodidae 



Erithizontidae 



Aplodontiidae 



Sciuridae 



Petauristidae 



Castoridae 



Ochotonidae 



Leporidae 



l^asypodidae 



Tayassuidae 



Cervidae 



Antilocapridac 



Bovidae 



Number of 

 identifications 



331 



274 



19 



I 

 I 



86 

 1,816 



3^ 

 16 

 14 



I 



173 

 IS 



330 



Percentage of 



identifications 



among those 



of all 



mammals 



IG.5046 



•5712 



•0635 



.6982 



8.6957 



.6030 



.0317 



.0317 

 •0317 



2.7293 



57.6326 



.9838 



.5078 



•4443 



.0317 



54903 



.4760 



10.4729 



Percentage 



of nearctic 



species 



in this 



group ^ 



.2958 

 1.4790 

 6.5076 



.2958 

 35496 



•1479 

 3-2538 

 5.6202 



.5916 

 8.5782 



24.1077 



7.9866 



8.5782 



1.7748 



.2958 



•7395 

 14.6421 



•7395 

 .2958 



1.7748 



2.9580 

 .1479 

 .1479 



3-9933 

 • 1479 



I-33II 



^Compiled from Miller, Gcrrit .S., Jr., List of Nortli American land mammals 

 in the U. S. National Museum, 1911, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, 455 pp., 1912. 



