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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 

 Mammals of Trinidad.— Dr. Percy Kendall's notes on this subject in 

 last month's ' Zoologist,' pp. 341-345, are evidently largely based on 

 experiences in a locality where it was my privilege to collect during March 

 and April, 1893, and I have therefore read them with unusual interest. 

 His capture of Dasyprocta cristata, Desm., struck me as one of especial 

 importance, for I had previously supposed this animal to be restricted to 

 the Lesser Antilles, where its presence has been considered to have a signi- 

 ficant bearing on the relation of the fauna of these islands to that of the 

 mainland. I find, however, that the Agouti has been previously recorded 

 from Trinidad by Dr. Sclater,* on the basis of two animals presented to the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens in 1885 by T. J. Guy, and one presented in 

 1891 by K. J. L. Guppy. Both of these presentations were unknown to 

 Dr. Allen and myself when writing our list of the mammals of Trinidad,f 

 and I take this opportunity to acknowledge and correct an oversight. In 

 stating that there are but "three marsupials found in Trinidad," Dr. Kendall 

 has evidently overlooked Thylamys carri, described by Dr. Allen and myself 

 from three specimens taken at Caparo in March, 1894. \ Here also, as in 

 other parts of the island, I fouud Heteromys anomalus abundant, and not 

 of "local" distribution. Sixty-nine specimens were taken, and the animal 

 was apparently as common in the mountains at Caura as in the lowlands of 

 Savanna Grande. — Frank M. Chapman (American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York). 



RODENTIA. 



" The Seasonal Changes in the Common Squirrel."— Those who read 

 Mr. Thomas's remarkable paper with this title, published in * The Zoolo- 

 gist ' for 1896, at pages 401-407, will be interested to learn that sixty years 

 earlier the late Edward Blyth appended a striking note on the same subject 



* ' List of the Vertebrated Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of 

 the Zoological Society of London.' Ninth edition, 1896, p. 132. 



f * On a Collection of Mammals from Trinidad, with Descriptions of New 

 Species.' Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. v. 1893, pp. 203-234. 



J 'On a Second Collection of Mammals from the Island of Trinidad, 

 with Descriptions of New Species, and a Note on some Mammals from the 

 Island of Dominica.' Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ix. 1897, pp. 13-30. 



