i9°5\ Brimley — Catalogue of Mammals. 3 



R. W. Collett, Cherokee county; R. D. Foxhall, Edgecombe 

 county; N. W. Fain, Buncombe county; K. B. Shore, Forsyth 

 county; T. A. Smithwick, Bertie county; Dr. J. W. P. Smith- 

 wick, Lenoir county; Miss Maggie Wicker, Moore county; and 

 Dr. Donald Wilson, Cherokee county, to all of whom I am 

 very much indebted for the information furnished. 



Thanks are also due to Messrs. H. H, Brimley, Curator 

 State Museum, Raleigh, N. C. ; Dr. Witmer Stone, Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; G. S. Miller, Jr., United 

 States National Museum; S. N. Rhoads, Philadelphia; Dr. J. 

 A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History, New York; 

 Outram Bangs, Boston, Mass.; and especially to Dr. O. Hart 

 Merriam, Chief of the United States Biological Survey, for 

 | : information given and assistance rendered. 



The class Mammalia comprises warm blooded vertebrates, 



usually clothed with hair and never with feathers. A number 



of other characteristics define the class, but the warm blood 



', distinguishes it from all other classes of animals except the 



I birds and these are distinguished from mammals by the 



presence of feathers. 



In the following catalogue the orders and families are 

 arranged in the same sequence as in * Jordan's Manual. 



Sixty-six species and subspecies are credited herein to North 

 lina, and are numbered serially from 1 to 66. Nine other 

 species, not yet known to occur are added in brackets without 

 numbers, in their proper places. Some of the forms included 

 may be really the same as other allied forms also included, or 

 but slightly different, but I have tried to use as good judg- 

 ment as was possible in the matter. 



BY TO THE ORDERS OF LAND MAMMALS OCCURRING IN NORTH 

 CAROLINA. 



'emale generally (always in our species) provided with a 

 pouch in which the young are carried for a time 



mal of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States, by D. S. 

 Chicago, 1899, A. C. McClurg & Co. 



