CHAPTER II. 
REPORT EY DR. GEO. SUCKLEY, U. S. A. 
SOEEX TKOWBfllDail, B a i r d . 
Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, .57, 13. 
Sp. Cn. — Above, sooty brown, slightly variegated with hoary ; beneath a little paler, but differing only slightly from the 
back. Head and body S}., inches ; tail 2, hind feet over .5 of an inch. 
Two specimens were procured at Steilacoom. 
SOREX SUCKLE YI, Baird. 
Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 18. 
Sp. Ch. — Above, ligiit chestnut brown ; beneath, greyish white. Length 2j inches ; tail lA. Hind foot .46 of an inch. 
Two specimens were procured at Fort Steilacoom, where it is not rare. (One numbered 24.) 
SCALOPS TOWNSENDIl, Bach. 
Oregon Mole. 
Scalops tetonsendii, Bach. J. A. N. S. Ph. VHI, 1839, 58.— Ib. in Townsend's Narr. 1839, 314. 
AuD. & Bach. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1853, 217 ; pi cxlv. 
BA!nD, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 65. 
Sp. Ch. — Teeth 44. Eye small, but not covered by the integument. Tail rather scantily haired. Nostrils opening on the 
upper surface of the tip of the snout. Palm large and broad. Color nearly black, with faint purplish or sooty brown reflection. 
(Sometimes, perhaps, glossed with silvery 
Four specimens collected at Steilacoom in 1856, (21, 85, 119.) 
UROTRICHUS GIBBSII, Baird. 
Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 76. 
Muzzle prolonged into a cylindrical tube, continued some distance beyond the incisors, terminating in a simple naked bulb. 
Nostrils cylindrical, opening in the side. Eyes and ears concealed. Tail long and hairy. Fore feet moderately large, shorter 
than the hind feet. Upper and under surfaces of both covered with small plates. 
Tail as long as the body (exclusive of the head.) Color uniform dark sooty plumbeous. Body about'Sj inches long. 
A specimen was collected July 15, 1854, by Mr. Geo. Gibbs, in White River Pass of the 
Cascade mountains, Washington Territory, north of Mount Rainier, (15.) 
FELIS CONCOLOR, Linn. 
The American Panther. 
Felis concolor, Linn. Mantissa, 1771, 522 ; pi. ii. 
AuD. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 305 ; pi. xcvi,xcvii. 
Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 83. 
Sp. Ch. — Body considerably larger than that of the common sheep. Tail more than half tlio length of head and body. Gen- 
eral color above, a uniform pale brownish-yellow, finely mottled by dark tips to all the hairs. Beneath, dirty white. A black 
patch on the upper lip, separated from the nose by a triangular white space. Convexity of ear black ; tip of tail dusky o 
spots or blotches on the body in the adult ; a few obsolete ones in the half-grown young. Kittens with the bodv densely spotted 
and tho tail ringed. 
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