Excerpt from A Distributional List of the Mammals of California The system of entry adopted in the following list is simple. Of the higher groups only Orders and Families are given. The scientific name here adopted for the species is given in bold face, followed by the authority. A vernacular name has been selected - in many cases with difficulty, as is admitted. In nearly every case the original description has been verified from its original source. In the few instances where the cita tion is given within quotation marks, the citation is at second hand, that is, the original has not been seen by the writer. The type locality is usually just as given in connection with the original description; sometimes it is modified somewhat to make it more intelligible, for example, by giving the name of the county or of the nearest large town; and occasionally cor rections have been necessary. The synonyms are any other names - aside from those appearing in the heading and in the citation following orig inal description - that have been applied to the species as occurring within the state of California. Where a name now considered synonymous with the accepted one, was based upon a specimen from California, the full citation and type locality are given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.