MAMMALS OF MARYLAND 



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Atlantic killer whale, Grampus Orcirms (Linnaeus) . 



Atlantic blackfishj Glohicephala rmlaemi (Traill) . 



Short-finned blackfish, Glohicephala macrorhyncJia Gray. 



Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus). 



Sei whale, Balaenoptera horealis Lesson. 



Hump-backed whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski) . 



Right whale, Eubalaena glacialis (Borowski) . 



EXTIRPATED RECENT MAMMALS OF 



MARYLAND 



Mansueti (1950) has discussed in detail the extirpated Recent mam- 

 mals of the State. He lists six species that at one time occurred within 

 Maryland but have vanished since the coming of the white man. As 

 pointed out by Handley and Patton (1947, p. 78) : 



Though it is regretable that man has had a hand in the extinction of these 

 creatures, he is not to be blamed too much, for the ascendency of one species and 

 the extinction of another is a regular process of nature which has been repeated 

 over and over again all down through the ages. Probably man did not have much 

 or anything to do with the disappearance of wild horses, mammoths, mastodons, 

 tapirs, wild pigs, ground sloths and camels which once roamed our lands, but 

 they are gone nevertheless. As surely as a species of animal comes into being, 

 it is destined to eventual extinction, whether by geologic catastrophies such as 

 volcanic eruptions or earthquakes ; or by great climatic changes involving vast 

 spreading glaciers or desert wastes, or by the hand of man. Our geologists have 

 given us proof of all this by the fossil record in the rocks. 



The six species of extirpated Recent mammals of Maryland dis- 

 cussed by Mansueti ( 1950) are : 



PORCUPINE 

 Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus) 



This species apparently never was widely distributed in Maryland, 

 nor was it ever abundant. Mansueti cites records from Allegany 

 County ; Blue Ridge Mountains ; Frederick-Washington Counties ; and 

 Ellicott City, Howard County (all of these prior to 1881). Rhoads 

 (1903, p. 115) cites porcupine records from Fulton and Somerset Coun- 

 ties, Pa., adjacent to Maryland on the north. The Cumberland (Mary- 

 land) Sunday Times for 9 August 1964 reported that recently a por- 

 cupine was shot on a farm at Rocky Gap, east of Cumberland. A pho- 

 tograph of this animal accompanied the news release. This may repre- 

 sent a valid state record, or the animal may have been brought to 

 Maryland from elsewhere. This same article in the Cumberland Sun- 

 day News reports that in 1912 a boy in Frostburg brought some quills 



