436 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vou. XXXII. 
Eight species previously described, but not then known from Florida, 
complete the 38 additions, more than doubling the list. The names 
of 12 others have been changed through the recognition of the 
Florida phase of wide-ranging species as subspecifically distinct from 
the species formerly recorded as Floridian, so that the total number 
of new forms from Florida and the coast region of Georgia described, 
with two exceptions since 1888, is 42, out of a total of 73. Except- 
ing among the bats, nearly all of the old species have been split into 
one or more subspecies, while the representatives of some of the 
genera have greatly increased. For example, Geomys (pocket 
gophers or “ salamanders”) has increased from 1 species to 4, with 
an additional subspecies ; Peromyscus (deer-mice), from 3 species to 
8 species and 3 additional subspecies. 
Some of the subspecies recognized by Mr. Bangs are only very 
slightly differentiated local forms, so slightly that the advisability of 
their recognition in nomenclature is, to p the least, in some 
instances doubtful. 
Mr. Bangs’s paper is an important contribution to North American 
mammalogy, and is of especial value as a contribution to the faunal 
literature of a peculiarly instructive and interesting region. 
has been 
so thoroughly discussed in such works as those of Ecker, Marshall, 
and Morgan, that it might seem at first sight as if there were nothing 
more to be said beyond the completion of anatomical and embryo- 
logical details. 
The first of a series of natural history notes ' made upon Amphibia 
by H. Fischer-Sigwart, presents so much of interest in the life history 
of the frog, Rana fusca, that we wait eagerly for more, and, at the 
same time, venture to hope that some American representative of 
this group may soon meet with as sympathetic a biographer. 
The author’s observations extend over a period of some thirty 
years ; the past ten years furnishing continuous data of times and 
seasons and measurements, made in the field and in his “terrarium,” 
and now collected in tables. These and the double-page plate (the 
artistic merit of which must be seen to be appreciated) may be 
passed by to begin a brief synopsis of some of the facts recorded. 
Scattered over the country, far from the water, the frogs of this 
species pass the summer in feeding, being most active by night and 
1 Vierteljahrsschrift d. Naturfor. Gesell. in Zürich, January, 1898, pp. 238-313- 
