88 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 



The introduction advises that tlie first attempt to catalog Cali- 

 fornia mammals was made by the pioneer California naturalist, Dr. 

 J. G. Cooper, in 1868 when he listed 115 kinds of mammals for the 

 State. Frank Stephens published in 1006 his ''California IMammals" 

 which listed 276 kinds. In 1913, GrinnoU published "A Distributional 

 List of the Mammals of California" (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Vol. 3, 

 pp. 265-390) which listed 337 species and subspecies. The same author 

 in 1923 published a nominal list of 417 species and subspecies of 

 mammals for California (Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., Vol. 21, pp. 313- 

 324). The author states that the present Review is in no sense to be 

 considered more "final" than anj?^ of the similar preceding contribu- 

 tions and it may therefore be considered in the nature of a progress 

 report upon the classification of mammals in the State. 



The present Review lists 460 species and subspecies of mammals 

 for California. The account of the species commences with the intro- 

 duced Virginia opossum. The treatment of each species is as follows : 

 First, its order, family and scientific name are provided, next vernacu- 

 lar name, then reference for the animal's original description. Type 

 locality is next provided and then vernacular synonyms. The mam- 

 mal's range in the State is then provided in some detail, including 

 its altitudinal range and the life zones it inhabits. 



Following the account of the opossum, moles, shrews and bats are 

 treated. Next, two kinds of black bear and seven kinds of grizzly 

 bear are ascribed to the State. The latter are all now thought to be 

 extinct and the last positive record of a grizzly bear in California was 

 for one shot at Horse Corral Meadows, Tulare County, in August, 1922. 

 Fur bearers are next listed as follows: coons (3 kinds), ring-tailed cats 

 (3), marten (2), fisher, weasels (6). mink (2), wolverine, river otter 

 (2), sea otter, spotted skunk (7), striped skunk (4), badger (2), red 

 fox, kit fox (3), gray fox (3), Island foxes (6), mountain, valley 

 and desert coyotes, and plains wolf. The last wolf taken in California 

 was secured in Lassen County, in 1924. 



The following cats arc ascribed to California : the IMexican jaguar, 

 which historical evidence indicates once occurred as far north as the 

 region between Monterey and San Francisco, two kinds of mountain 

 lion and four wild cats. 



We learn from this review that California waters are, or were once, 

 inhabited by two kinds of sea lions, the Pribilof and Guadalupe fur 

 seals, the California harbor seal and the elephant seal. 



Griunell presents a novel, but doubtless logical, innovation to lists 

 of mammal fauna on pages 118 and 119 of the report when he lists the 

 subspecies of man inhabitating tlie State. Four subspecies are recog- 

 nized, the Causasian, American Indian, Mongolian and Negro. The 

 author, in his account of the status of the Caucasian, provides the 

 following, almost facetious, statement: "Nonnative, but now thoroughly 

 established and spreading and increasing, chiefly by immigration, at an 

 amazing rate. First came, as voluntary pioneers, in year 1769, settling 

 in a few coastal localities. Increased but slowly until about 1850 

 when great numbers arrived from many parts of the world. Disposi- 

 tion aggressive and tendencies destructive, especiallv of natural habi- 

 tats, as result of which much of native mammal life, including the 

 endemic race of man {H. fi. nmericanus) , has been reduced; * * *" 



