6 4 



ECONOMIC MAMMALOGY 



Kolinsky 1,151,553 



Wolf 1,094,502 



Beaver 420,490 



Wombat 208,977 



Alaska fur seal . . 



Kangaroo 



Silver or black fox 

 Sea otter . 



85,164 



41,238 



26,350 



76 



We do not know what is meant by civet cat in this list, as that name 

 is used for several very different animals, and the item is omitted from 

 a later list by the same authors, 22 in which they give the number of 

 mink skins for the same period as 2,540,971, add the following species, 

 and make the total 107,689,927: 



Chinchilla 36,448 



Fisher 32,014 



Marten 309,808 



Stone marten 107,075 



Sable 57,oo8 



Cross fox 32,296 



Land otter 1 1 1 ,059 



Marmot 3,107,759 



European polecat 1,094,411 



White fox 166,071 



Bobcat 191,799 



Raccoon 1,713,700 



32,296 Raccoon 



The world's production of furs of aquatic mammals in 

 estimated as follows at the low prices then prevailing: 23 



1 900 has been 



The following table of estimates of annual world sales for some of 

 the important fur-bearers, far from a complete list, is slightly modified 

 from Laut's 1921 table: 24 



Badger 160,000 to 185,000 



Beaver 81,000 to 09,000 



Ermine 1,000,000 to 1,110,000 



Fitch (polecat) 300,000 to 350,000 



Silver fox 4,300 to 6,000 



Red fox 1,000,000 to 1,200,000 



Marten 150,000 to 210,000 



Stone marten 250,000 to 380,000 



Mink 640,000 to 1,000,000 



Muskrat 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 



22 Osborn and Anthony, Can we save the mammals?, Nat. Hist., xxn, 389-405, 1922. 



23 Stevenson, Utilization of the skins of aquatic animals, Kept. U. S. Com. Fish and 

 Fisheries for 1902, pp. 285, 287. 



24 Laut, The fur trade of America, p. 84, 1921. 



