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ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Haslar Hospital, Gosport, 
February, 1889. 
The progress of science during the years that the Zoology of Captain 
Beechey’s Voyage has lain unpublished, requires some amendments to be 
made in the preceding list of Mammalia inhabiting the north-west coast of 
America, and enables us to add a few species. 
3. Sorex PARVUS. 
The Shrews of America have not until recently been examined and named by competent authority, and 
the specific name of parvus in particular has been applied to various small species whose diminutive size is 
the principal point of their agreement with each other. This is in fact the case with the individual mentioned 
in the text as having been killed by Mr. Collie, in Behring’s Straits : — it accorded tolerably with Say’s short 
description, and want of authentic specimens for comparison prevented us from giving it another appellation, 
or of applying that of parvus with confidence. An excellent paper in the Journal of the Academy of Sciences 
of Philadelphia, for 1837, by the Rev. Dr. Bachman, raises the number of North American shrews to thirteen, 
and contains correct descriptions of no fewer than ten which came under the author’s personal observation. 
It is to be regretted that Say’s Sorex parvus has not been identified by the United States’ naturalists since its 
first disocvery, so that its detailed characters, its range, and its identity with the Behrings’ Strait animal 
remain to be made out. The Sorex parvus of the Fauna B oreali- Americana has been named S. Richardsonii 
by Dr. Bachman. The original specimen is in the Zoological Museum. 
4. Scalops Canadensis. 
The Rev. Dr. Bachman informs me that he has materials for the description of at least three scalopes 
which differ in their dentition, and will enable him to clear up the decrepancies to be found in authors who 
have included all in one species. 
11. Meles labradoria. 
Two skins of a badger brought from the parts of California, bordering on Mexico, were compared by 
Mr. Bennett with the specimen from the plains of the Saskatchawan, described and figured in Fauna Boreali- 
