No. 7. — The Land Mammals of Peninsular Florida and the 
Coast Region of Georgia. 
By Outram Bangs. 
The present paper is intended to include all the land mammals 
that occur in the region between the Savannah River and Cape 
Sable, including the Sea Islands of Georgia and the islands of 
eastern Florida, but it does not cover Florida west of the Suwannee 
River. The list of Chiroptera has been kindly prepared for publica¬ 
tion in this paper by Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., and is published 
exactly as it came from his pen ; all the other work is wholly my 
own. Seventy-three forms are recognized as inhabitants of the 
region treated, seventeen of which are described as new. 
In all probability this number is nearly complete, as the region 
has now" been pretty thoroughly worked. Some unlooked-for 
forms may of course turn up, and it is possible that some of the 
Sea Islands, upon which Mr. Brown was unable to collect, may 
hold insular forms. One hears all kinds of strange stories in 
Florida of wonderful beasts that have been seen and even killed 
there. Tales of jaguars and ocelots have often been published, and 
are told by many of the hunters. If these animals really occur in 
Florida, it is strange that specimens have never found their way 
into collections, although many efforts to get them have been made. 
Still better evidence against the occurrence of the jaguar or the 
ocelot in Florida is that given by Mr. Cory, who says that the 
Indians know them not. 
Among other things I have heard of a Bassariscus being killed in 
the everglades, and a “gray gopher” on one of the interior prairies. 
The “ gray gopher ” I had a chance to run to earth, and it turned 
out to be a gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis ), with a broken, 
stumpy tail, that was surprised and shot while attempting to cross a 
treeless prairie by the man who told me the story. It was mounted, 
and I traveled some miles to see it, because my informant had come 
to Florida from Minnesota and assured me that he knew a gray 
gopher (meaning Spermophilus franklini ). The Bassariscus rests 
on the authority of W. F. McCormick of Cocoanut Grove, Florida, 
who is well informed, and who told me he had shot the animal 
himself. 
