OF LANCASTER COUXTY, 



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"before another fifty years many of these will have passed beyond our borders, never to 

 return. Of the smaller species of animals, belonging to other classes, and especially 

 of the Insecta, there is a redundancy, and civilization and cultivation seem rather to 

 increase their numbers than to diminish them. But whether this state of tilings exist- 

 ed when the dense primitive forests of Lancaster county were inhabited by the Red- 

 man and his animal contemporaries — the quadi-upeds and birds — is a matter gravely to 

 be doubted. The "Canada Lynx" or wild cat, has been shot in this county within the 

 last ten years, and it is barely possible that a very few individuals may still l>e found in 

 the woody regions. Thirty years ago a stray panther was seen, or supposed to have 

 been seen, within the county; but it needed a fuiiher corroboration to redeem the 

 assumption from passing into a mere myth, and that corroboration was never secured. 

 Civilization has, however, vastly increased the numbers of a few mammals, especially 

 of those called rats and mice. Domestic mammals, such for instance as the horse, the 

 ox kind, the sheep and the pig, are of course not included in this list, because it is too 

 manifest that they have been introduced and moreover are only found in a domestic state. 



ORDER CARNARIA. 



Family I — Cheiroptera. 



Vkspertilio. Lin. 

 noveboracensis. Lin. Red-Bat. 

 pruinosa. Say. Hoary-Bat. 

 carolinensis. Geof. Brown-Bat. 

 subulatus(?) Say. Subulate-Bat. 



Family II — Insectivora. 



SoREX. Lin. 

 brevicaudus. Say. Shrew. 



ScALOPS. Cnv. 

 canadensis. Cuv. Mole. 



CONDTLURA. III. 



cristata. III. Star-nose. 



Family III — Carnivora. 



Procyon. Str. 

 lotor. Lin. Raccoon. - 



MusTELA. Lin. 

 lutreola. Lin. Mink, 

 vulgairs. Lin. "Weasel, 

 erminea.l Lin. Ermine, 

 pennanti.l Ere. Marten. 



Mephitis. Cuv. 

 americana. Des. Skunk. 



Ltjtra. Brs. 

 "brasiliensis. Ray. Otter. 



Canis. Lin. 

 fulvus. Des. Red-Fox. 

 cinereo-argentatus. 0ml. Gray-Fox. 



FEiiis. Lin. 

 canadensis.! Geof. Wild-Cat. 



Family IY — Marsupialia. 



DiDELPnis. Lin. 

 virginiana. Pen. Opossum. 



ORDER RODENT I A. 



Family I — Claviculata. 



Fiber. III. 

 zibethicus. Lin. Musk-Rat. 

 Arvicola. Lacp. 

 xanthognatus. Lch. Meadow Mou.se. 

 riparius. Ord. Short-tailed Mouse. 



Mus. Lin. 

 decumanus. Pal. Common Rat. 

 rattus.2 Lin. Black Rat. 

 musculus. Lin. Com. Mouse, 

 agrarius. Gml. Field Mouse. 

 Gerbillus. Den. 

 canadensis. Des. Jumping Mouse. 



Arctomys. Gml. 

 monax. Gml. Ground Hog. 

 SciURUS. Gml. 

 cinereus. Lin. Cat Squirrel, 

 carolinensis. Gml. Gray Squirrel, 

 hudsonius. Frs. Red Squirrel. 

 uiger(?) Lin. Black Squirrel. 



Tamias. 

 striatus. Kin. Ground Squirrel. 



Pteromys. III. 

 volucclla. Lin. Flying Squirrel. 



Family II — Inclaviculata 



Lepus. Lin. 

 americanus.3 Lin. Common Hare. 



1 Very rare, if at all in e.Kistence in this county at the present time. 



2 This animal is also becoming rare in this county, and a very few years may chronicle its total ex- 



tinction. . »i, . 



3 This animal, according to authors, is very improperly called the Babbil. It appears, however, that 

 excepting the "English Rabbit," which lias been introduced and domesticated here, we have not a 

 true rabbit in this county, or even in North America. 



