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ENDANGERED, THREATENED, AND 



RARE FAUNA OF NORTH CAROLINA 



PART I. A RE-EVALUATION OF THE MAMMALS 



Edited by Mary Kay Clark 



This book is a report prepared by a committee appointed in 1985 by 

 the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences to re-evaluate the 

 list of mammals presented in Endangered and Threatened Plants and 

 Animals of North Carolina (John E. Cooper, Sarah S. Robinson, and John 

 B. Funderburg, editors. N.C. State Mus. Nat. Hist., Raleigh, 1977), which 

 is now out of print. Committee members were Mary Kay Clark, David A. 

 Adams, William F. Adams, Carl W. Betsill, John B. Funderburg, Roger A. 

 Powell, Wm. David Webster, and Peter D. Weigl. The report treats 21 

 species listed in the following status categories: Endangered (5), Threatened 

 (1), Vulnerable (6), and Undetermined (9). Most species accounts discuss 

 the animal's physical characteristics, range, habitat, life history and eco- 

 logy, special significance, and status (including the rationale for the evalua- 

 tion and recommendations for protection) and provide a range map and 

 an illustration of the animal's external characters. Ruth Brunstetter and 

 Renaldo Kuhler illustrated the book. An introductory section contributed 

 by Ms. Clark discusses the changes in status that occurred in the decade 

 between 1975 and 1985. It also mentions efforts to protect marine mam- 

 mals and includes a checklist of the cetaceans known from North Carolina. 



1987 52 pages Softbound ISBN 0-917134-14-1 



Price: $5 postpaid. North Carolina residents add 6% sales tax. Please make 



checks payable in U.S. currency to NCDA Museum Extension Fund. 

 Send order to: ETR MAMMALS, N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences, 



P.O. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611. 



