MAMMALS. 



5 



"Hairlighb fawn colored, tipped with darker, beneath paler. Face hairy, dark brown. Nose rounded, emarginate. Ear. 

 longer than the head, oval, entire, very pale dusky browm Orillon nearly one half the length of the ear, linear, blunt. Mem 

 brane thin, naked, brown. Inter-femoral, including the tail, except the two last joints. 



"Length, 3; tail, 1.5; naked part, 1 ; extent, 12.1 ; head, 9; ears, .95; Orillon, 4.** 



Inhabits California. « 



'* Differs from all the other species in having but four lower incisors ; I hesitate, therefore, to arrange it with the Serinoid or 

 Muroid Bats, and place it at the end of those two families." 



Numerous specimens of this species were collected by the Boundary Commission in Texas, 

 New Mexico, Sonora, and California. The one described by Major Leconte was taken at 

 El Paso. 



ORDER 



INSECTIVOKA. 



3. BLARINA BEELANDIERI, Baird, (p. 53.') 



Several specimens of this species were contained in the Berlandier collection, and are easily 

 characterized by the above diagnosis. The species is described more at length in the report on 

 the Zoology of the Pacific Railroad Survey. 



2159. MatamoraSj Mex., Lt. Couch. 



4. BLARINA EXILIPES, Baird; (p. 51.) 



A single specimen of Shrew, (63 1,) which I somewhat doubtingly refer to a species described 

 in the report on the Zoology of the Pacific Railroad Survey, as found in Mistissippi, was taie 

 at Brownsville, Texas, by Capt. Van Vliet.^ 



631. Brownsville. 



ORDER 



ARNIYORA. 



5. FELIS CONCOLOR, Linn. (p. 83.)— American Panther. 



1355. Matamoras, Max., Lt. Couch.— 1148. Eagle Pass, Tex., A. Schott.— 1005. San Eli- 

 zario, J. H. Clark. — 1110. Copper Mines, N. M., J. H. Clark. 



"Panthers are found in greater or less numbers throughout the entire country traversed by the Boundary Cooamission. la 

 Texas, along all the streams where there are thick bushes, it has been seen from the coast to the Kio Grande, at Ei Paso del 

 Norte; and likewise frooi the latter place, in similar localities, wan observed by us as far as Los Nogales in Sonera ■ in which 

 State, the Mexicans, who call it Leon, wage against it an unceasing warfare, on account of the ravages which it commits among 

 the cattle. Ic destroys very many colts and calves in that country, not very ofcen attacking full grown animals. The moat 

 effective means used for their destruction, in the bands of the Sonoranidos, is strychnine. They poison with this substance the 

 carcases of the animals that have been slain, and not only often succeed in thus killing the Leanes, but a great number of wolves 



also- 



Westem 



eighth volume of the series of PaciSc Railroad reports, where the species are described at length, and their synonymy given la 



detail. 



3 A species of long tailed shrew or true Sorex, collected at Fort Bliss, Texas, by Dr. Crawford, was received too late to charac- 

 ^^erize in this place. A species oSScaJops, (S. taiirmntu,) is described from Texas, by Dr. Bachman, but it has not fallen under 

 mj observation. 



