a. Does it live in your locality at present? If so, is it common 

 or rare? 



b. If formerly present, but now extinct, give particulars con- 

 cerning its extirpation, and the dates when the last individuals were 

 seen or killed. 



c. How many young are produced, and at what season? 



d. Describe its nest, burrow, or habitation. 



e. Give the times — exact dates when possible — of appearance 

 and disappearance of such species as are migratory (e. g. the Red 

 Bat), and of such as hibernate (Woodchuck, Jumping-mouse, etc.). 



/. In what manner is it injurious or beneficial to man, in your 

 district? (In the cases of noxious species, state the number destroyed 

 during current and preceding years, and give the amounts paid out in 

 bounties offered for their destruction ; also give statistics or estimated 

 numbers of food species annually sent to market, and of pelts of fur- 

 bearing animals taken, together with any other facts relative to their 

 economic uses.) 



g. Give as many facts as you can, concerning the habits, actions, 

 voice, traits, and general characteristics of each. If attempts have 

 been made to breed any species in confinement, for economic uses, 

 state with what result. 



h. Add any information in your possession, supposed to be of 

 interest in connection with Rhode Island mammals. 



/. Name any species of mammals which have been found in 

 Rhode Island, not given in list A, giving as full particulars as pos- 

 sible respecting each. 



j. Give the names and addresses of persons who are especially 

 interested in hunting or trapping mammals, and especially of those 

 who deal in skins, or have formed collections of specimens. 



k. Give full particulars concerning the discovery, at any time, 

 of bones, teeth, horn or other remains of mammals in this State, 

 and if possible describe their present location and condition. 



A. List of the wild mammals known to have inhabited 

 THE State of Rhode Island during the historic period.'* 



1. Opossum. Didelphis virgttnatia Kerr. 



2. Common Botlle-nose Porpoise. Tursiops tursio (Fabricius). 



3. Common Dolphin. Delphimis delphis Linnseus. 



4. Harbor Porpoise; Puffing Pig; Snuffer. Phoccena p/wcccna 



(Linnaeus). 



5. Blackfish; Pilot Whale. Globicephalus melas (Traill). 



6. White Whale; Beluga. Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas). 



7. Bottle-nose Whale. Hyperoodon rosiratus (Chemnitz). 



8. Sperm Whale. Fhyseter macrocephalus Linnajus. 



9. Right Whale. Balcena cisarciica Cope. 



10. Fin-back Whale. Sibbaldius tectirostris Cope. 



11. Virginian Deer. Odocoileus virginianiis (Boddaert). 



12. Moose. Alee americanics Jardine. 



♦All are native except the House Rat and House Mouse. Several naturalized races of Man 

 {Homo sapiens Linnaeus) are omitted, among them the subspecies europirus, asiaticits, and afer, 

 all of Linnaeus; but the native Red Man is included. 



