DIVISION EIGHT — SCIENCE. 585 



list of our native mammals which he kindly prepared specially for this 

 volume : 



PROF, holder's complete LIST OP OUR NATIVE MAMMALS. 

 [Notes in brackets by the editor.] 



Badger. — Taxidea Americana. 



Bats. — VespertiUo lucifugus ; Nitidus ; Evotis ; Plecotus macrotis ; 

 Atitrozous pallidus ; and several others. 



Bears. — Black: Ursus Americanus , — Grizzly: Ursus horribilis ; cinna- 

 mon : Ursus ci7ine77toneus . 



Big-horn. — Ovis montana. Found within a few years on Mount San 

 Antonio, [Formerly also in the San Gabriel mountains.] 



Coyote. — Canis latrans. [Identical with the wild dogs of Assyria, 

 Samaria and Judea.] 



Deer. — Black-tailed: Cariacus Columbiayius ; mule deer (rare); Cari- 

 acus macrotis. [Abundant in all this region when Spaniards first came here.] 



Fox. — Coast fox : Vulpes littoralis. [Also called silver-gray fox, and 

 mountain fox. Plenty of them at Echo mountain and vicinity.] 



Gopher. — California variety : Thomomys bulbivorus (Baird). 



Mole. — Scalops aqtiatrhis. 



Puma. — Felis concolor. [Mountain lion.] 



Porcupine. (?) — Erethizon dorsatum. [Extremely doubtful.] 



Raccoon. — Black-footed : Procyon hernandezii. 



Raccoon-fox. — Bassaris astuta. [Also called "civet-cat," ring- tailed 

 bassaris, etc. [See " Civet cat," page .] 



Rabbits. —Jack rabbit (hare): Lepus Californicus ; — cotton-tail: 

 Lepus artemisia. I have Seen two different species of cotton-tails, I am 

 positive. [Van Dyke describes two species.] 



Rats. — Pocket rat: Dipodomys phillipsii — observed at I^as Casitas ; — 

 wood rat : Neotoma fiiscipes. 



Squirrels. — Ground squirrel : Spermophihis Buchezii ; — fox squirrel : 

 Sciurus fossa ; — chipmunk : Tamias Harrisii. [I think there is also a gray" 

 timber squirrel found high up in the mountains, but not given in this 

 list.— Ed.] 



Skunks. — Big skunk: Mephitis occidentalis , small spotted skunk: 



Spilogale piitorius. 



Weasel. — Putoriics. [The ''Mustela " of the Spaniards.] 



Wild Cat. — Lynx rufus^ variety maculatus. [Tenney's Zoology calls 

 Lynx rufus the American wildcat, and this is the one that is called here the 

 "California lynx," which is really a ferocious beast. But there is also 

 another variety of wildcat here, which is much more pussy-like in its man- 

 ners, though sometimes quite large. — Ed.] 



Wolf — Gray : Canis occidentalis. [See Coyote above.] 



The following I quote further from Prof. Holder's published writings : 



ancient animals of pasadenaland. 



It will perhaps be a surprise to some readers to learn that not so long 

 ago (geologically speaking) the elephant was included in the Southern Cali- 



