CIRCULAR OP THE COUNCIL OP THE MONTREAL NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The Council of the Natural History Society of Montreal have 

 still to deplore the very defective state of their collection of mam- 

 mals. The recent large increase of the working members of the 

 Society, its improved status at home and reputation abroad, and 

 the removal of the Society to their present commodious building, 

 all demand that this collection should attain the same complete- 

 ness as that of the Canadian birds, now in the Museum, and be- 

 come equally useful for reference. The Council would therefore 

 respectfully represent to Naturalists, Sportsmen and others, that 

 they could much advance the desired object by sending their spe- 

 cimens to the Society for preservation ; and to those kindred So- 

 cieties who might also feel disposed to co-operate, the duplicate 

 specimens of minerals, fossils, and birds, both American and fo- 

 reign, now in possession of the Society, would readily be made 

 available where wanted. In publishing the subjoined list of qua- 

 drupeds chiefly wanted, the Council desire to solicit the aid of the 

 public generally to supply them, convinced that their efforts to 

 foster and advance the special branch of science to which they 

 devote themselves, will be appreciated. 



ABRAHAM DE SOLA, LL.D., 



Cliairman. 

 JOHN LEEMING, 



Recording Secretary. 

 Montreal, January, 1863. 



Lynx Canadensis, or Common 



American "Wildcat. 

 Lynx Fasciatus. 

 Parry's Marmot Squirrel. 

 Four-striped Ground Squirrel. 

 The Wolverine. 

 Collared Peccary. 

 Red-bellied Squirrel. 

 Canada Pouched Rat. 

 Black Spermophile. 

 Douglas' do. 

 Richardson's do. 

 Franklin Spermophile, or Great 



Gopher of Wisconsin and Illinois. 

 Hare-Squirrel. 

 Black Squirrel. 

 Hoary Marmot. 

 Black-tailed Deer, or Columbia 



Deer. 

 Mule-Deer, or Cervus macrotis. 

 Musk-Ox. 

 Long-tailed Deer. 

 Arctic Fox. 

 Little Otter. 



Canada do. 

 Caribou. 

 Cinnamon Bear. 

 Grizzly Bear. 

 Common Deer. 

 American Buffalo. 

 American Elk. 

 Polar Hare. 

 Black-tailed Hare. 

 Virginian Opossum. 

 Black American Wolf. 

 Fox-Squirrel. 

 Prairie-Wolf. 

 Rocky-Mountain Sheep. 

 Rocky-Mountain Goat. 

 Moose-Deer. 

 Prong-horned Atelope. 

 Ocelot, or Leopard-Cat. 

 Prairie-Dog, or Marmot-Squirrel. 

 Swift Fox, or Kit-Fox of plains. 

 Raccoon. ■ 

 American Badger. 

 Specimens of species of Moles, 

 Rats, Mice, Shrews. 



