44 MAMMALIA. 



Buchner Wiss. Result. Przewalski Reisen Rodeniia, p. 40, pis, iii, iv, 

 figs. 11-14. 

 Arctomys baibacina, apad Severtzoff Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xviii, p. 50 

 (1876). 



DutrihuHon.—YiS^% north of Kabul (Anderson), Thian Shan 

 (Severtzoff) and the Juldus valley (Przewalski). 



a. ? Skull Afghanista'n. Sir A. Burns, A.S.B. 



h-c. 2 Skulls juv. Kabul ? J. Anderson. 



Arctomys marmota. 



Mus marmota, Linncsus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 81 (1766). 



Arc±omys m&tTaoXa., Schreber Saugeth.,iv,p.'j22{i'jQ2); Blasius Sdugetk. 



Deutsch., p. 280. 

 Marmota alpina, Blumenhach Handb. Naturges., I2th ed., p. 70 (1830). 



Distrihution. — The higher regions of the Alps, Pyrennees and 

 Carpathians. 



a. Stuffed Mrs. Turnbull (1867). 



Arctomys monax. 



Mus monax, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 8[ (1766). 



Arctomys monax, Schreber Saugeth., iv, p. 737 (1792) ; Allen Monographs 



N. Amer. Rodents, p. 911. 

 Arctomys empetra, Sabine Linn. Trans., xiii, p. 584 (1822). 



Distrihution. — North America from Hudson's Bay to the Caro- 

 linas and from the Atlantic to Minnesota. 



a-b. 2 Skins Ontario, Canada J. H. Gamier [Ex.] 



c. Skin, skull $ W. Rutledge. 



Genus CASTOR. 

 Castor, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 78 (1766), 



Castor fiber. 



Castor fiber, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 78(1766); Allen Mono- 

 graphs N. Amer. Rodents, p. 433. 



Castor canadensis, Kuhl Beitr. Zool., p. 64 (1820). 



Castor americanus, Richardson Back's Arctic Exped., p. 494 (1836)*. 



Castor europaeus, Owen Brit. Foss. Mamm., p. igo (1846) ; Blyth Cat., 

 no. 404, p. 123. 



The Beaver. 



Distribution. — Europe, Siberia and North America, though now 

 extinct in the greater part of Europe and also in the Eastern States 

 of North America. 



a. Stuffed Norway. Christiania University 



(1844), A. S. B. 



