Article XXIX. LIST OF MAMMALS FROM VENEZUELA, 

 COLLECTED BY MR. SAMUEL M. KLAGES. 



By J. A. ALLEN. 



During three' years 1900-1902 Mr. Samuel M. Klages, 

 a wellrknown entomological collector, collected birds and 

 mammals for this Museum in Venezuela, incidentally to his 

 other work. The collection of mammals, which forms the 

 subject of the present paper, includes 275 specimens, repre- 

 senting 46 species. Some were collected in the immediate 

 vicinity of Ciudad Bolivar, but the greater part at Maripa, 

 Suapure, and other points in the Caura Valley. 



1. Marmosa klagesi Allen. Ciudad Bolivar, 3 specimens,. 



2 adult and i young, Oct. 26, Nov. 13, and Jan. 2; La Union, 



3 specimens, i adult female and 2 young, May 4 and June 7. 

 (See this Bulletin, XII, 1.900, p. 198.) 



2. Marmosa mitis Bangs. Ciudad Bolivar, i specimen, 

 Sept. ii. Indistinguishable from Santa Marta, Colombia, 

 specimens. 



3. Marmosa murina (Linn.). Suapure, i specimen, 

 Nov. 17. 



4. Peramys brevicaudatus dor sails A lien. Ciudad Bolivar, 

 3 adults, taken in December, and 2 young from Suapure, 

 March 25 and Dec. 15. (See this Bulletin, XX, 1904, p. 327.) 



5 . Caluromys trinitatis leucurus Thomas. Ciudad Bolivar, 

 skin and skull, adult male, Oct. 15; Suapure, skull only of 

 a half- grown specimen, March 25. 



6. Metachirus nudicaudatus (E. Geoffrey). Maripa, i 

 specimen, adult female, Feb. 28. 



7. Didelphis marsupialis Linn. Ciudad Bolivar, i speci- 

 men, a female about one third grown, -Jan. n. 



8. Bradypus tridactylus flaccidus (Gray) . Nine specimens, 

 collected as follows: Ciudad Bolivar, 3 specimens, 2 of which 

 are adult females and the other a young female about one 

 third grown, Jan. 25 and Feb. 6 ; Suapure, 4 specimens, 3 adult 

 females and a young female, Sept. 11, Oct. 20, and Feb. 17; 



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