CH^^PTER X. 



A LIST OF THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF 

 SOUTH CAROLINA.* 



BY FREDERICK W. TRUE, 



CURATOR IN THE V. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SUB-KINGDOM VERTEBRATA. THE VERTEBRATES. 

 CLASS MAMMALIA. MAMMALS. 



A class of hair-clad vertebrates, possessing a four-celled heart, dis- 

 charging warm, red blood, which contains both white and red cor- 

 puscles. Skull with two condyles. Limbs never less than a single pair, 

 never more than two pairs. Symmetry of the two sides of the body com- 

 plete. Young from a minute egg, brought forth alive, and nourished 

 by a secretion (milk), from modified glands of the skin. 



*This list is based, in part, upon data furnished by Dr. G. E. Manigault, of the 

 Charleston Museum. The literature relating to the vertebrate fauna of the Southern 

 States has likewise been carefully examined. That the list may not be a merely nom- 

 inal one, the mark of interrogation has been placed before the names of those species 

 whose range is supposed to extend over South Carolina, but whose occurrence in the 

 State has not been recorded. An exception is made, however, in the case of species 

 known to occur in both North Carolina and Georgia. These are included without 

 question. A comparison with the list published by Prof. Gibbes, in 1847, is almost im- 

 practicable on account of the many changes which have occurred in the nomenclature 

 and determination of species, resulting from the progress of the study of vertebrate 

 zoology since that time. F. \V. True. 

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