that he had nothing to bark at. The little 
had slily hastened back, and carried off the bor 
of “Genius among Animals,” Spurzheim relates two similar in- 
stances of canine sagacity : one little dog, y 
accustomed to ‘securé his portion;” and a pointer, by the same 
means, obtained.a comfortable place near the fire from which he 
was Sada ther dogs in the family. 
Squirrels : larve of Estrus in then.—Westwood states, in his 
“ Modern Classification of Insects,” that “each species of Estrus 
is parasitic upon a peculiar species of mammiferous herbivorous 
animal ;” and that “the ox, horse, ass, reindeer, stag, antelope, 
camel, sheep, hare and rhinoceros, [in a note, he adds the badget 
and monkey,] are the only quadrupeds hitherto observed to be 
subject to the attacks of these insects.” ‘To this catalogue must 
be added the squirrel; for I have in my possession an estrous 
larva about three fourths of an inch long, two or three lines 
broad, and perfectly black, which was taken from the back of a 
Sciurus leucotis, (Bachman,) or northern gray squirrel. 
Quadrupeds about Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. 
Local lists are still wanting, to enable naturalists to trace their geographical limits with 
precision.” —Richardson. x 
- - his remark of Dr. Richardson, though made in reference to 
the feathered tribes, is perhaps equally applicable to other objects 
of natural history. Under this impression, I offer you the fol- 
lowing catalogue of mammals found in this vicinity before and 
since its settlement by white men. 
Preliminary statements respecting the physical character, and. 
the progress of civilized population, are not, I presume, inappro- 
priate to zoological catalogues. For it is well known that some 
animals follow the path of civilization, while others flee before — 
it; some seek the streams, and some the hills; others select the 7 
plains, the open forests, or the tangled wood.. There is also @ 
certain relation between the kind of trees and the wild tenants — 
