Mammals of New Brunswick. 
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ARTICLE IV. 
MAMMALS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
By Montague Chamberlain. 
INTRODUCTION. 
S O far as has been ascertained, there have been but two catalogues 
of the Mammals of this Province previously published ; one 
of these appeared in a work by Abraham Gesner, Esq., issued in 
1847, entitled “New Brunswick; with notes for Emigrants, com- 
prehending the early History, &c. ; ” the other is placed among 
the appendices to “ Field and Forest Rambles,” a work on New 
Brunswick, by Dr. A. Leith- Adams, published in 1873. Neither 
of these catalogues being correct — when judged by the result of 
more recent investigations — a new one has been called for, and it 
is to meet this demand that the present paper is now published. 
All of the species mentioned have been identified by the writer, 
excepting the few otherwise noted in the text ; but in deciding 
upon the relative abundance he has had to depend, to a large 
degree, upon the opinions of others, and while the best available 
information has been obtained, it is very probable a difference of 
opinion may exist regarding the correctness of some of the deter- 
minations. A criticism of the catalogue is invited from observers 
throughout the Province, with a view to having whatever errors 
it may contain rectified in a future edition. 
Want of space prevents his mentioning the names of all the 
gentlemen who kindly gave the writer the benefit of their obser- 
vations, and to whom he desires to express his thanks ; but he is 
under especial obligation to Mr. James Vroom, St. Stephen, and 
to Mr. John Stewart, Woodstock, for valuable notes. 
The classification and nomenclature is that of Jordan’s “ Manual 
of the Vertebrates,” excepting a slight difference in the Bats, 
copied from Dobson’s “ Catalogue of the Chiroptera.” 
