CHAPTEll II. 



EEPOET BY DE. GEO. SUCKLEY, U. S. A. 



SOREX TROWBRIDGII, Baird. 



B^iRD, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 57, 13. 



Sp. Ch. — Above, sooty brown, slightly varieg-ated with hoary ; beneath a little paler, but differing only slightly from the 

 back. Head and body S^v. inches ; tail 2, hind feet over .5 of an inch. 



Two specimens were procured at Steilacoom. 



SOREX SUCKLEYI, Baird. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 18. 

 Sp. Ch. — Above, light chestnut brown ; beneath, greyish white. Length 2^ inches ; tail IJ. Hind foot .46 of an inch. 



Two specimens were procured at Fort Steilacoom, where it is not rare. (One numbered 24.) 



SCALOPS TOWNSENDII, Bach. 



Mole. 



Scalops toxonsendii, Bach. J. A. N. S. Ph. VIII, 1839, 58.— Ib. in Townsend'a Nar'r. 1839, 314. 

 AuD. & Bach. N. A. Quad. HI, 1853, 217 ; pi cxlv. 

 Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 65. 



Sp. Ch. — Teeth 44. Eye small, but not covered by the integument. Tail rather scantily haired. Nostrils opening on the 

 upper surface of the tip of the snout. Palm large and broad. Color nearly black, with faint purplish or sooty brown reflection. 

 (Sometimes, perhaps, glossed with silvery ?) 



Four specimens collected at Steilacoom in 1856, (21, 85, 119.) 



UROTRICHUS GIBBSII, Baird. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 76. 



Muzzle prolonged into a cylindrical tube, continued some distance beyond the incisors, terminating in a simple naked bulb. 

 Nostrils cylindrical, opening in the side. Eyes and ears concealed. Tail long and hairy. Fore feet moderately large, shorter 

 than the hind feet. Upper and under surfaces of both covered with small plales. 



Tail as long as the body (e.tclusive of the head.) Color uniform dark sooty plumbeous. Body about 2{ inches long. 



A specimen was collected July 15, 1854, by Mr. Geo. Gibbs, in White River Pass of the 

 Cascade mountains, Washington Territory, north of Mount Rainier. (15.) 



FELIS CONCOLOR, Linn. 



The American Panther. 



Felis concolor, Linn. Mantissa, 1771, 522 ; pi. ii. 



AcD. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 305 ; pi. xcvi, xcvii. 

 Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 83. 



Sp. Ch — Body considerably larger than that of the common sheep. Tail more than half the length of head and body. Gen- 

 eral color above, a uniform pale brownish-yellow, finely mottled by dark lips to all the hairs. Beneath, dirty white. A black 

 patch on the upper lip, separated from the nose by a triangular white space. Convexity of ear black ; tip of tail dusky. No 

 spots or blotches on the body in the adult ; a few obsolete ones in the half-grown young. Kittens with the body densely spotted 

 and the tail ringed. 



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