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FROM this carefully drawn-up report we learn that there I are sixty-five mammals at present indigenous to this American State. The common ones, with a few exceptions—as the mink (Putorius lutreolus), weazel (P. ermineus), and skunk (Meflutis mephitica), among the carnivores; Vespertilio subulatus and Lasiurus noveboracensis among the bats—belong to the families of the rodents, the squirrels, mice, and hares, and to the Balœnidœ and Delphinidœ, which latter are of course marine. The panther, moose, reindeer, elk, and beaver have comparatively recently become extinct. A notice is appended to the work by Prof. Agassiz, earnestly requesting friends to forward to him males, females, and young of almost any of the European mammals. Books on mammalia would be equally valued, and in exchange he offers on the part of the museum at Cambridge, U.S., representatives of the North American fauna and American books.
The Mammalia of Massachusetts.
By J. A. Allen. (Trubner & Co.)
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The Mammalia of Massachusetts . Nature 1, 625 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001625a0
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