268 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Srp. 
The writer here wishes to express his appreciation of the 
cordial assistance rendered in various ways by Mr. John 
Rowley, Curator of Mammals in the California Academy of 
Sciences. Acknowledgments are also due Mr. Walter P. 
Taylor, of the staff of the California Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology, for correcting several errors in the manuscript. 
To summarize: according to the present enumeration 337 
species of mammals are accredited to California and the adja- 
cent ocean. Eight Orders are represented, thirty-one Families, 
and eighty-nine Genera. 
Order INSECTIVORA 
Family TALPIDAE 
Scapanus townsendi (Bachman) 
Oregon Mole 
Original description—Scalops townsend Bachman, Journ. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 8, pt. 1, 1839, pp. 58-60. 
Type login Bon Vancouver, Clarke County, Washing- 
ton (fide True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 19, 1896, p. 63). 
Synonym—Townsend Mole. 
Range—Boreal and Transition zones in extreme northern 
humid coast belt, south to Cuddeback, Humboldt County (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.). 
Scapanus orarius True 
Northwest Coast Mole 
Original description—Scapanus orarius True, Proc. U. 5. 
Nat. Mus., 19, December, 1896, p. 52. 
Type locality—Shoalwater Bay, Pacific County, Washing- 
ton. 
Range—Boreal and Transition zones in extreme northern 
humid coast belt, south as far as Cuddeback, Humboldt County 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.), and Mendocino, Mendocino County 
(Elliot, Field Col. Mus., zool. ser., 3, 1903, p. 197). 
