THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. 97 



with yellowish brown and tipped with silvery white. Whitish 

 below. 



A larg-e northern bat migrating* southward in winter, as do 

 some oif the other species. 



The only record for the State of New Jersey is one recorded 

 by Cooper (Annals of N. Y. Lyceum, 1848, vol. IV, p. 56), shot 

 by J. F. Ward, in November, near the heights of Weehawken, 

 Hudson county, N. J. 



Lasiuriis cmereus Abbott, Cook's Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 751. 

 — Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 214. 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Flesh=Eating Mammals. 



The cat and dog are familiar examples of the animals of this 

 order. They are mainly flesh-eating and adapted for killing their 

 own prey. The canine teeth, which are entirely wanting in the 

 gnawing animals, are strongly developed, and the molars, instead 

 of being flat-topped grinders, are surmounted with sharp cusps. 



The legs are moderate, the feet of ordinary size, not elongated, 

 as in the hoofed animals, and the claws are sharp and often 

 retractile, or capable of being withdrawn into folds of the skin. 

 Some carnivorous animals walk on the whole foot, as the bears, 

 and are called plantigrade; others, like the dog and cat, walk 

 on the toes and are called digitgrade. The several families of 

 carnivorous mammals may be distinguished as follows : 



a. Feet modified into flippers for swimming. PHOCiDi^ (Seals) 



aa. Feet not modified into flippers. 

 b. Toes, five on all feet. 



c. Size generally small, shape slender, tail long, sometimes black- 

 tipped but never tinged. musteud^ (Weasels, etc.) 

 cc. Size medium, tail long, bushy and tinged with black and white. 



PROCYONiD^ (Raccoons) 

 ccc. Size large, tail very short, uniform in color with back. 



URSiD^ (Bears) 

 bb. Toes, five on the fore feet, but only four on the hind feet. 



d. Toes not retractile. canid^ (Foxes) 



dd. Toes retractile. felid.^ (Cats) 



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