BANGS: LAND MAMMALS OF FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 165 
Besides these trips that I have made myself, I have had several 
collectors in Florida and Georgia. The most important trip was 
that undertaken last winter by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., who collected 
from the middle of December, 1896, to the end of May, 1897, 
covering the ground from the Savannah River to New Berlin and 
Burnside Beach, Florida. He visited all the Sea Islands, but to my 
disappointment was unable to work on four of the largest of these. 
All the Sea Islands are now held either by private individuals or 
by clubs as game preserves, and are strictly and rather jealously 
guarded. On Sapolo, Wolf, St. Simon’s, and Jeckle Islands, Mr. 
Brown was refused permission to collect. On Skiddaway, Ossabaw, 
St. Catherine’s, and Cumberland Islands, he was courteously treated 
and allowed to carry on his work. On the main land he made col¬ 
lections at the following localities in Georgia: Hursman’s Lake 
(Savannah River), Pinetucky, Adam, Montgomery, Barrington, 
Doctortown, and Sterling. The last part of his time was spent in 
the vicinity of Jacksonville, Florida, principally with a view of 
securing series of the wood rat and the cotton rat, the types of these 
two species being supposed to have come from that region. Mr. 
Brown took large series of both these animals. His collection of 
over a thousand specimens is of great importance in the present 
work and has enabled me to map out the range of nearly all the 
Florida forms and determine where they either merge into their 
austral representatives or overlap their ranges. The bear, deer, and 
lynx are the only species Mr. Brown did not take that I was par¬ 
ticularly anxious for, as it leaves the northern limit of these three 
animals still in doubt. 
In the late winter and early spring of 1895, Mr. C. L. Brownell 
collected for me at the following places in southern Florida : Jupiter 
Inlet, Miami, Cape Sable, Flamingo, and Ivey West. When the 
coral rock formation is reached small mammals decrease both in 
numbers and in number of species, and Mr. Brownell’s collection, 
though containing two new forms peculiar to southern Florida ( Ory- 
zomys palustris coloratus and iSigmodon hispidus spadicipygus ), 
was small. At Cape Sable and Flamingo, he took of the smaller 
mammals but three species, namely, Peromyscus gossypinus pal- 
marius , Oryzomys palustris coloratus, and Sigmoclon hispidus 
spadicipygus . While at Key West he could find nothing but the 
two imported species of Mus, Mas rattus alexandrinus and Mus 
musculus. 
