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a. Does it live in vour locality at present? If so, is it common 
or rare? 
b. If formerly present, but now extinct, give particulars con¬ 
cerning its extirpation, and the dates when the last individuals were 
seen or killed. 
c. How many young are produced, and at what season? 
d. Describe its nest, burrow, or habitation. 
e - Give the times — exact dates when possible — of appearance 
and disappearance of such species as are migratory (e. g. the Red 
Bat), and of such as hibernate (Woodchuck, Jumping-mouse, etc.) 
f. In what manner is it injurious or beneficial to man, in your 
district? (In the cases of noxious species, state the number destroyed 
during current and preceding years, and give the amounts paid out in 
bounties offered for their destruction ; also give statistics or estimated 
numbers of food species annually sent to market, and of pelts of fur¬ 
bearing animals taken, together with any other facts relative to their 
economic uses.) 
g. Give as many facts as you can, concerning the habits, actions, 
voice, traits, and general characteristics of each. If attempts have 
been made to breed any species in confinement, for economic uses, 
state with what result. 
h. Add any information in your possession, supposed to be of 
interest in connection with Rhode Island mammals 
*• Name any species of mammals which have been found in 
Rhode Island, not given in list A, giving as full particulars as pos¬ 
sible respecting each. 
j. Give the names and addresses of persons who are especially 
interested in hunting or trapping mammals, and especially of those 
who deal in skins, or have formed collections of specimens. 
k. Give full particulars concerning the discovery, at any time, 
of bones, teeth, horn or other remains of mammals in this State, 
and if possible describe their present location and condition. 
A . List of the wild mammals known to have inhabited 
the State of Rhode Island during the historic period,* 
1. Opossum. Didclphis virginiana Kerr. ^ 
2. Common Botlle-nose Porpoise. Tursiops tursio (Fabricius). 
3. Common Dolphin. Delphinus delphis Linnaeus. 
4. Harbor Porpoise; Puffing Pig; Snuffer. Phoccena p/ioccetta 
(Linnaeus). 
5. Blackfish; Pilot Whale. Globicephalus me/as (Traill). 
6. White Whale; Beluga. Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas). 
7. Bottle-nose Whale. Hyperoodon rostratus (Chemnitz). 
8. Sperm Whale. Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus. 
9. Right Whale. Balczna cisaretica Cope. 
10. I* in-back Whale. Sibbaldius tectirostris Cope. 
11. Virginian Deer. Odocoileus virginianus (Boddaert). 
12 Moose. Alee americanus Jardine. 
♦All are native except the House Rat and House Mouse. Several naturalized races of Man 
(Homo sapiens Linnaeus) are omitted, among them the subspecies ctiropcrus. asiaticus. and afer, 
all of Linnaeus; but the native Red Man is included. ’ ■' 
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13. Southeastern Red Squirrel. Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bangs. 
14. Northern Gray Squirrel. Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Gapper). 
15. Northeastern Chipmunk. Tamias striatus lysteri (Richardson). . A' 
16 Woodchuck; Groundhog. Arclomys monax (Linnaeus). Jy 
17 Southern :Flying Squirrel. Sciuropterus volans (Linnaeus), jjjg 
18. American Beaver. Castor canadensis Kuhl. SC' 
19. House Mouse Mus musculus Linnaeus. » 
20 House Rat; Wharf Rat. Mus decumanus Pallas. 
21. Northeastern Deer Mouse; Buck Mouse. Peromyscus leucopus 
noveboracensis (Fischer). 
22. Common Red-back Mouse. Evotomys gapperi (Vigors). 
23. Common Meadow-mouse. Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord). 
24. Northern Pine Mouse. Microtus pinetorum scalopsoidcs (Audubon 
and Bachman). 
25. Muskrat. Fiber zibethicus (Linnaeus). 
26. Meadow Jumping-mouse. Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann). 
27. Northeastern Cottontail. Lepus floridanus transitionalis (Bangs). 
28 Southern Varying Hare. Lepus americanus virginianus (Harlan). 
29. Northeastern Panther. Fc/is oregonensis hippolestcs (Merriam). 
30. Wildcat. Lynx ruffus (Gueldenstaedt). 
31. Red Fox. Vulpes fulvus Desmarest. 
32. Timber Wolf. Can is occidentalis (Richardson). 
33. Black Bear. Ursus americanus Pallas. 
34. Raccoon. Procyon tutor (Linnaeus). 
35. Northeastern Otter. Lutra canadensis (Schreber) /xO C-Pit/urL I . YV 
36. Skunk. Mc/>hitis mefihitica (Shaw). &U*teuUj*- j 
37. Southeastern Mink. Putorius ( Lutreola ) vison lutreoceph'alus (Har¬ 
lan). 
38. Bonaparte Weasel. Putorius cicognanii (Bonaparte). 
39. New York Weasel. Putorius novcboraccnsis Emmons. 
40. Fisher. Mustcla pennanti Erxleben. 
41 Greenland Seal; Harp Seal. Phoca grasnlandica Fabricius. 
42. Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina Linnaeus. 
43. Masked Shrew. Sorex personatus I. Geoffroy St Hilaire. 
44. Short-tail Shrew Blarinu brevicauda (Say). 
45. Star-nose Mole. Condylura cristata (Linnaeus). 
46. Silvery Bat. Lasionyctcris noctivagans (Le Conte). 
47. Larger Brown Bat. Vcspcrtilio fuscus Beauvois. 
48. Hoary Bat Lasiurus cincreus (Beauvois). 
49. Red Bat. Lasiurus borealis (Muller).* 
50. Red Man; American Indian. Homo sapiens americanus Lin¬ 
naeus. 
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two small islands in Long Island Sound, New York; and Mr. Outram Bangs, who has collected 
the mammals of Block Island, R. I., and compared them with the mainland forms which they 
represent, is of the opinion that some will require separation. Critical comparisons ot all our 
insular mammals with those of the mainland will perhaps result in other additions to the present 
list than those which are expected to result from Mr. Bangs’s studies of the Block Island species. 
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*A ‘Light Brown or Wood Bat,’ familiar to Mr. Frank Blake Webster, at Lonsdale and Dag- 
2 t’s, Rhode Island, from 18(57 to 1884, was probably a species of Myotis or f ipistrcuus. 
