FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM PUBLICATION 57 ZOOLOGICAL SERIES VOL A II, No LIST OF THE LAND AND SEA MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO SUPPLEMENT TO THE SYNOPSIS BY D G ELLIOT, F.R.S.E., ETC Curator of Department CHICAGO, U S A June, 1901 2, 6,4 , n w , PREFACE can The present List contains all the named forms of North Amerimammals on land or in the adjacent seas described up to this date, that, sideration to the under the most lenient treatment, are entitled to any conThe various forms that were included in the Appendix "Synopsis of North American Mammals" have been placed in their proper positions Five species that were omitted from that work, and such forms been named since it passed through the press, have been added with their descriptions, and will be found under their respecas have tive genera A few changes in genera and species, affected by the rule of priority, have been made, and typographical errors in names, which, in spite of every care have appeared in the "Synopsis," have been corrected, and the spelling in this List should be adopted differing from that book the in just mentioned serve as a Check List of our whenever This publication, as a guide for " labeling specimens, and as a Supplement to the Synopsis," to be bound with it, and bringing it to date The pagination given is that of the " Synopsis." Especial thanks are due to Dr F W True of the U S Nat therefore, may Museum, Washington, ceps for and Berardius bairdi plates accompanying photographs Mammals, of the skulls of in the National collection, this publication Kogia brevifrom which the were taken D G E June 10, 1901 : CLASS MAMMALIA Order Fam i Marsupjalia, Didelphyidae I Didelphys Linn., 1758 PAGE *Didelphys virginiana Kerr Didelphys virginiana pigra Bangs Didelphys californica Bennett Order Fam Dasypodidae I Blumenbach, I * Harl Regarding the adoption of this Biol Soc Retzius, 1794 specific Wash., Manatidae II Ma nut us latirostris tSee Palmer, Proc Hydrodamalidae (Zimm.) Fam Sirenla, Hydrodamalis Hydrodamalis gigas Manatus 1799 (Linn.) Order in Fam i Edentata ii tTatll Tatu novemcinctus i Storr, 1780 name, see Thomas, Amer Nat., 1901, p 144 1897, p 174 Mr Witmer Stone has called my attention to the fact that this generic term' was published by Blumenbach in the Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, GOttingen, in 1799, p 73, four years previous to the edition quoted by Dr Palmer, thus taking precedence by many years over any generic term proposed for the nine-banded Armadillo Novemcinctus is the only species included in Tatu, and therefore represents the genus 477 478 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM Order iv Fam III Getacea Balaenidae I Balaena ZOOLOGY, VOL Linn., 1766 PAGE Balaena glacialis Bonnat Balaena sieboldi (Gray.) Balaena mysticetus Linn Balaena kuzira (Gray.) Rhachianectes glaucus 11 12 Cope, 1869 (Cope.) Megaptera Gray, 1864 Megaptera nodosa (Bonn.) Megaptera nodosa osphyia (Cope.) Megaptera versabilis (Cope.) 13 *Rhachiaiiectes 10 , Agaphelus Agaphelus gibbosus 1 (Erxleb.) Balaenoptera Lace" p., 1804 19 20 Balaenoptera sulfurea 15 16 17 18 Fam 1O 21 22 II 12 12 13 13 13 13 Linn., 1766 Linn Hyperoodon = Rhachianectes, 1 Physeteridae Physeter Hyperoodon rostratus , 14 (Cope.) Physeter macrocephalus 11 10 Cope, 1868 Balaenoptera acuto=rostrata Lace"p Balaenoptera davidsoni Scamm Balaenoptera velifera Cope Balaenoptera velifera copei Elliot Balaenoptera physalus (Linn.) Balaenoptera borealis Less Balaenoptera musculus (Linn.) 14 10 10 (Mull.) nee Rachianectes 15 Lace*p., 1804 16 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZOfiLOGY, PL KOGIA BREVICEPS Superior surface No 21627 U S Nat Mus About % nat size L FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZO6LOGY, KOGIA BREVICEPS Inferior surface No 21627 U S Nat Mus About Y$ nat size PL LI FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZO6LOGY, CONEPATUS MAPURITO Museum Coll No $437 Field Columbian Nat size PL LVI LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS JUNE, 1901 78 Procyoii 496 Procyon lotor (Linn.) Procijoii lotor hernandezi PAGE 317 317 318 319 319 Wagl lotor jxicifi-cns Merr lotor elucits Bangs Fa ni V Sub Fam Hustelidae Melinae I Taxidea 79 497 Taxidea americana Waterh., 1838 320 (Bodd.) Mearns Ta.videa americana neglecta l