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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



GENUS CASTOR. 

 Common Beaver • Castor fiber. 

 Muskrat • - • Castor zibethicus. 



GENUS MUS. 



Norway Rat 



Blank Rat • 



American Rat - 



Water Rat 



* Sand or Earth Rat - 



Louisiana Earth Rat or 



Gopher - 

 + Ash-co!oured Rat - 

 Common Mouse 

 Rustic Mouse 

 Mex.ean Mouse 

 Virginian Mouse 

 Hudson's Mou.se 

 American Wandering 



Mouse - 

 Meadow Mouse - 

 X Pennsylvania Meadow 



Mouse 



Mus decumanus. 

 Mus raltus. 

 Mus Americanus. 

 Mus amphibius. 

 Mus tuza. 



Mus Lvdovicianus. 

 Mus cinereus. 

 Mus musculus. 

 Mus dgrarius. 

 Mus Mexicanus. 

 Mus Virginianus. 

 Mus Hudsonius. 



Mus Canadensis. 

 Mus arvalis. 



Mus Pennsylvanica. 



GENUS ARCTOMTS. 

 Maryland Marmot or 



Groundhog • 

 Canadian Marmot 

 Hoary Marmot • 

 Tailless Marmot 

 Earless Marmot 

 Louisiana Marmot or 



Prairie-dog 

 Columbia Marmot 



Arctomys monax. 

 Arctomys empetra. 

 Arctomys pruinosa. 

 Arctomys Hudsonius. 

 Arctomys citillus. 



Arctomys Ludoviciana. 

 Arctomys Columbianus. 



GENUS SCIURUS. 

 Large Black Squirrel Sciurus niger. 

 § Small Black Squirrel Sciurus Pennsylvanica. 

 Cat or Fox Squirrel • Sciurus vu'pinus. 

 Gray Squirrel - • Sciurus cinereus. 

 Louisiana Gray Squirrel Sciurus Lvdovicianus. 

 Virginian Squirrel • Sciurus Virginianus. 

 || New-Jersey Squirrel Sciurus hiemalis. 

 Varied Squirrel - - Sciurus variegatus. 

 Mexican Squirrel - Sciurus Mexicanus. 

 Hudson's Bay Squirrel Sciurus Hudsonius. 

 K Carolina or Chickaree 

 Squirrel ■ 



Sciurus Carolinensis. 

 Sciurus strialus. 

 Sciurus flavus. 

 Sciurus volucella. 



Sciurus Labradorius. 



Ground Squirrel 

 Fair Squirrel 

 Flying Squirrel - 

 Hudson's Bay Flying 



Squirrel - 

 ** ColumbiaGraySquirrel Sciurus 

 ** Red-breasted Squirrel Sciurus • 

 ** Rocky-mountain 



Ground Squirrel - Sciurus 

 ** Brown Squirrel - Sciurus 



GENUS DIPUS. 

 Labrador Jerboa • Dipus Labradorius. 

 Canada Jerboa - - Dipus Canadensis. 

 American Jerboa • Dipus Americanus. 



GENUS LEPUS. 

 Common Hare - - Lepus limidus. 



Varying Hare - - Lepus variabilis. 

 AmericanHare or Rabbit Lepus Americanus. 



ORDER PECORA. 



GENUS CERVUS. 



Ceivlis alces. 

 Cervus major. 

 Cervus Virginianus, 

 Cervus tarandus. 

 Cervus Mexicanus. 



Cervus — — • 



Cervus — — - 



Moose 



Greater Stag or Elk - 

 Common Deer - 

 Rein Deer ... 

 Mexican Deer - 

 Spring-back Deer 

 ttMule Df er - 



ttLong tailedFallow Deer Cervus — — 



tfBlack tailedFaliowDeer Cervus 



GENUS ANTILQPE. 

 American or Prong- 

 horned Antelope - Andlope Americanus. 

 ttBarbarian Antelope Antilope dorcas. 



GENUS OVIS. 

 Big-honied Sheep or 



Argali • - Ovis ammon. 



Rocky-mountain Sheep Ovis monlanus. 



GENUS EOS. 

 Bison or American Ox Bos Amerkanus. 

 Musk Ox - • - Bos moschatus. 



ORDER BELLUJE. 



Wild Horse 



GENUS EQUUS. 



Equus caballus. 



GENUS TAPIR. 

 Long-nosed Tapir • Tapir Americanus* 



GENUS SUS. 

 Mexican Hog or Peccary Sus tajassu. 

 Darien Hog or Warree Sus 



ORDER CETE. 



GENUS MONODON. 

 Narval - • - Monodon monoceros. 



GENUS BALMNA. 

 ^Common Whale - Balosna mysticetus. 

 Hump Whale - 



Pike-headed Whale 

 Beaked Whale - 

 Fin-fish 



Bakcna gibbosa. 

 Balcena boops. 

 Balmna rostrata. 

 Balmna physalus. 



GENUS PHl'SETER. 

 Blunt-headed Cachalot or 



Spermaceti Whale- Physeter macrocephalus. 

 Sharp-nosed Cachalot Physeter microps. 

 Lesser Cachalot- - Physeter catodon. 

 High finned Cachalot Physeter tursio. 



GENUS DELPHINUS. 

 Porpoise . - - Delphinus phoccena. 

 Grampus - - - Delphinus orca. 

 Dolphin - - . Delphinus delphis. 

 Beluga - ■ . Delphinus leucas. 



* Called by some writers Georgian Hamster, though it differs materially from the Hamsters of Europe 

 in its cheek pouches. The animal which follows has similar pouches ; but we have not the means of 

 ascertaining whether or no it is the same species. 



t Discovered by Lewis and Clark. See history of the expedition, vol. i. p. 289- 



X Described by Mr. Wilson. See American Ornithology, vol. vi. p 59. 



$ This has always been confounded with the foregoing, but it is a different species. It abounds m those 

 parts of Pennsylvania which lie to the westward of the Allegany ridge. 



II This is a nondescript. It is about the size of the Sciurus cinereus; of a mixed gray and tawny colour; 

 and has bearded ears. Inhabits near Little Egg-harbour, New-Jersey. 



U The lower parts of the Chikaree are white; sides of a beautiful gray; along the top of the back a 

 rusty line ; its ears are slightly tufted. 



** These have been described by Lewis and Clark; but we suspect that the Brown Squirrel is no other 

 than the Sciurus Hudsonius, No 4S of Pennant, Arct. Zool. sometimes called the Pine Squirrel, from the 

 circumstance of its being found in Pine Woods. 



t+ Described by Lewis and Clark. 



it Called also the Gazelle. Vide Henderson's Honduras, p. 97. Thus it appears that there are two spe- 

 cies of Antelope in North America, notwithstanding the opinions and determinations of the European 

 naturalists, that the New World did not afford a single species of this genus. 



§§ A young Whale of this species was taken in the Delaware, in the vicinity of the Falls, in the latter 

 partof the year 1814; and exhibited at Philadelphia. 



HI A Pike-headed Whale was caught some years since in the Delaware, near Reedy Island, ana shown 

 in Philadelphia and New-York. 



