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Number 4. April i, 1914- 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pubushdd by the University. 



AN ANNOTATED CHECK-LIST OF MICHIGAN 

 MAMMALS. 



By Norman A. Wood. 



The principal work of the Aluseum, at least during- the 

 rast 12 years, has been the preservation and organization of 

 the data on the abundance, local distribution and habits of the 

 species composing- the Michigan fauna. The task of gather- 

 ing the data on the mammals has fallen to the writer, but 

 owing to the small number of local naturalists interested in the 

 group, the difficulties in studying the forms, and the fact that 

 much of the writer's time has been consumed in the work on 

 birds, the information at hand is still too meager to permit of 

 the preparation of the proposed monograph on the group. 



The present list has been prepared in the hope of stimulat- 

 ing an interest in the subject that will result in the acquisition 

 of additional data. It is based upon the specimens in the Mu- 

 seum, the biological investigations of the Museum and the 

 Michigan Geological and Biological Sun^ey, the references in 



Scientific Papers of the University of Michigan, No.z^. 



