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MAMMALIA. 
28. Canis (vulpes) cinereo-argentatus. The Kit-fox. (F. B. A. No. 29.) 
Plains of the Columbia. 
29. Felis concolor. The cougar. (Harlan, Faun. Am. p. 94.) 
Monterey bay. (LangsdorfF.) 
30. Felis onca. The jaguar. (Harlan, Faun. Am. p. 95.) 
Banks of the Columbia. (Lewis and Clarke.) 
31. Felis rufa.? Bay lynx. (F. B.A. No. 31.)* 
Banks of the Columbia and North California. — This is perhaps the animal named “wanshee,” 
whose skins were obtained at Nootka by Captain Cook. 
32. Felis fasciata. Banded lynx. (F. B. A. No. 32.) 
Borders of the plains of the Columbia, and woody districts at the mouth of that river. 
33. Phoca (calogephala) vitulina. Common seal. (Cuv. Reg. An. p. 168.)f 
34. Phoca (calocephala) Greenlandica. Harp seal. (Idem, p. 168.) 
35. Phoca (calocephala) barbata. Great seal. (Idem, p. 168.) 
36. Phoca (otaria) jubata. Leonine seal. (Idem, p. 170.) 
37. Phoca (otaria) ursina. Ursine seal. (Idem, p. 170.) 
36. Phoca (otaria?) fasciata. Ribbon seal. (Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 165.)' 
All these seals are mentioned by authors as having been found on the north-west coast of America, 
but the species in some instances have been imperfectly determined. Other seals are enumerated in 
Krascheninikolf’s history of Kamtschatka, and if really proper species, most likely range over to the 
American shores. 
39. Trichechus rosmarus. The morse. (Harlan, Faun. Am. p. 114.) 
Behring’s Straits, and the Icy Sea to the northward : seen by Cook as far south as Bristol bay, 
lat. 58° 42'. It is unknown to the Esquimaux of the Coppermine and Mackenzie rivers. 
40. Didelphis Virginiana. The opossum.^ (Harlan, Faun. Am. p. 119.) 
California. (Mr. Collie.) No specimen brought home. 
41. Castor fiber, Americanus . American beaver. (F. B. A. No. 33.) 
Russian Amerioa, New Caledonia, and North California. 
* No, 31. Neck of the gall-bladder tortuous, like the vesiculce seminales in the human subject. Intestinal canal, 
9 feet long. (Collie.) 
t No. 33. A seal, referred by Mr. Collie to this species, was killed, on the 18th July, 1826, close to the St. Law. 
rence Islands. Thermometers, put into the cavity of the abdomen and of the heart, while it was in the act of dying, 
Stood at 92J Fahr., the temperature of the sea being at the time 43^, and of the air 44J-. 
£ No. 40. Mr. Collie mentions that the tongue of this animal is set above with prickles pointing backwards, and that 
its tip is dentated. 
