22. Common Red-back Mouse. : Evotomys gapperi (Vigors). 
23. Common Meadow-mouse. Microtas Pennsylvania's (Ord). 
24. Northern Pine Mouse. Microtus pindoram scalopsoid.es (Audubon 
^'' x and Bachman). 
25. Musk sat, Fiber zibethicus (Linnaeus) 
26. Al f.ado v{-ju mP iNGkMO u SE. Aapus hud somus (Zimmerman, ). 
27. Northeastern Cottontail. Lepits floridanus transitionalis (Bangs) 
28. Southern Varying Hare. Lepus americatAts virgiuianus (Harlan). 
29. Northeastern Panther. Felis oregonensis hippolestes (Merriam). 
30. Wildcat. Lynx ruff us (Gueldenstaedt). 
31. Red Fox. Vulpes fulvus Desmarest. 
32. Timber Wolf. Cam's occidentals. (Richardson). 
33. Black Bear. Ursus americanus Pallas. 
34. Raccoon. Procyon lotor (Linnaeus.) 
35. Northeastern Wter. Lutra canadensis (Schreber). 
36. Skunk. Mephitis mephitica (Shaw). 
37. Southeastern Mink. Putorus ( Lutreola ) vision lutreocephalus (Har¬ 
lan). 
38. Bonaparte Weasel. Putorius cicognanii (Bonaparte). 
*A1I are native_ except the House Rat and House Mouse. Several naturalized races of Man 
(Homo sapiens Linnaeus) are omitted, among them the subspecies eitropceus , asiaticus, and afer. 
all of Linnaeus; but the native Red Man is included. 
39. New York Weasel. Putorius noveboraccnsis Emmons. 
40. Fisher. Mustela pennanti. Erxleben. 
41. Greenland Seal; Harp Seal. Phoca grcenlandica Fabricius. 
42. Harbor Seal. Phoca Vitalina Linnaeus. 
43. Masked Shrew. Sorex personatus I. Geoffroy St. Hilaire. 
44. Short-tail Shrew. Blarina. brevicauda (Say). 
45. Star-nose Mole. Condylura cristata (Linnaeus). / 
46. Silvery Bat. Lasionycteris noctivagans (Le Conte). 
47. Larger Brown Bat. Vespertilio fuscus (Beauvois. 
48. Hoary Bat. Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois.) 
49. Red Bat. Lasiurus borealis (Muller). 
n-Cv UUJ B T r ? wn , °l’ Bat,’ familiar to Mr. Frank Blake Webster, "at Lonsdale and Dag- 
get s, Rhode Island, from 1867 to 1884, was probably a species of Myotis or Pipistrellus. 
50. Red Man; American Indian. Homo sapiens americanus jLin- 
- ’ List of those species of recent mammals whose occurrence 
in Rhode Island may be looked for with some degree of proba¬ 
bility.**’ 
B. List of those species of recent mammals whose occurrence 
**These have been found in neighboring States or waters. Some are now extinct, but records 
remains or rn£»m morr ' 
or remains of them may exist. 
1. or rip ed Dolphin. Lagenorhynchus aciitus Gray. 
2. Killer. Orca orca (Linnaeus). 
3. Gray Grampus; Cow Fish. Grampus griseus (Cuvier). 
4. Northeastern Fox Squirrel. Scrums ftidovicianus vicinus Bangs. 
5. southeastern Chipmunk. Tamias stmahis striatus (Linnaeus). 
6. Canadian Flying Squirrel. a&rinus macrotis Mearns. 
- Tb, . TO . ... JI.T ,, T" • 
7. Black Rat. Mus rattus Linn; 
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8. Canadian Deer Mouse. Peromyscus canadensis (Miller). 
9 - Cave Rat. JVeotoma Pennsylvania Stone. 
IO - New Jersey Red-back Mouse Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Stone. 
11. Rock Vole. Microtus chrotorrhinus (Miller). 
12. Bog Lemming. Tynaptomys cooperi Baird. 
I 3 - Woodland Jumping-mouse. Napoeolapus insignis Miller. 
14. Canadian Porcupine. Erethizon dbrsatiis (Linnaeus). 
15. Southeastern Cottontail. Lepus floridamus mallurus (Thomas,). 
16. Canadian Lynx. Lynx canadensis (Kerr). 
i 7 - Gray Fox. Urocyon cinereoargentcus (Schreber). 
18. Wolverine. Gulo luscus (Linnaeus). 
19. Northeastern Mink; Little Brook Mink. Putorius {Lutreola) 
vison vison (Schreber). 
20. Martin. Mustela arnericana Turton. 
2f. Hooded Seal. Cystophora cristata (Erxleben). 
22. Water Shrew.- Sorex ( Neosorex) albibarbis (Cope). 
23. * Smoky Shrew. Sorex fumeus Miller. 
24. Big-tail Shrew. Sorex viacrurus Batchelder. 
25. Hoy Shrew. Sorex hoyi Baird. 
26. Smaller Short-tail Shrew. Blarina parva (Say). 
27. Naked-tail Mole. Scalops aquaticus (Linnaeus). 
28. Hairy-tail Mole; Brewer Mole. P arascalops breweri Bachman. 
29. Little Brown Bat. Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte). 
30. Say Bat. Myotis subulatus (Say). 
31. Georgian Bat. Pipistrellus subflavus subflavus (F. Cuvier). 
32. Dusky Bat. Pipistrellus subflavus obscurus Miller. 
Note. —Among fossil mammals, species of the Walrus, Peccary, Horse, Elephant, Mastodon, 
and the Beaver-like Castoricles, are to be looked for. 
Edgar A. Mearns. 
Prepared and signed at the request of the Newport Natural History Society 
by Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. A., to whom replies may be addressed, 
at Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. 
Published by order of the Council, 
AMORY AUSTIN, Secretary. A. O’D. TAYLOR, President. 
