CHAPTER II, 



REPORT BY DR. GEO. SUCKLEY, U. S. A. 



SOREX TROWBRIDGII, Baird. 



BAIRD, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 57, 13. 



SP. CH. Above, sooty brown, slightly variegated with hoary ; beneath a little paler, but differing only slightly from tho 

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



Two specimens were procured at Steilacoom. 



SOREX SUCKLE YI, Baird. 



BAIRD. Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 18. 

 SP. CH. Abjve, light chestnut bro^rn ; baneath, greyish white. Length 2^ inches ; till l.J. Hind fjot .46 of an inch. 



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



SCALOPS TOWNSENDII, Bach. 



Oregon Mole. 



Scalops townsendii, BACH. J. A. N. S. Ph. VIII, 1839, 58. IB. in Townsend s Narr. 1839, 314. 

 ACD. & BACH. N. A. Quad. Ill, 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, 1657, 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 plates. 



Tail as long as the body (exclusive of tho head.) Color uniform dark sooty plumbeous. Body about 2j inches long. 



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

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



FELIS CONCOLOR, Linn. 



The American Panther. 



Felts 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 trianguhr 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 tho body densely spotted 

 and the tail ringed. 



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