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SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON 1929 Lives of Game Animals, Volumes 1-4. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York.

TAYLOR, W. P., and SHAW, W. T. 1927 Mammals and Birds of Mount Rainier National Park. U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 1929 Provisional List of the Land Mammals of the State of Washington. Occasional Papers of the Charles R. Conner Museum, Number 2.

WRIGHT, GEORGE M., and THOMPSON, BEN H. 1935 Fauna of the National Parks of the United States, Fauna Series Number 2. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

1905 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

1923-1938 Mount Rainier National Park Nature Notes, Volumes 1-13.

1931-1948 Annual Wildlife Census, Mount Rainier National Park.

INDEX OF COMMON NAMES

BAT Alaska Brown, 82 Big Brown, 82 Long-Eared, 82 Miller, 61 Northwest Coast, 82 Northwestern Long-Legged, 61 Silver-Haired, 62 Townsend Lump-Nosed, 62 BEAVER Mount Rainier Mountain, 43 Pacific, 39 BEAR, Olympic Black, 24 BOBCAT, 79 CHIPMUNK Cooper, 31 Hollister, 31 Townsend, 82 Yellow Pine, 82 COUGAR, Northwestern, 78 COYOTE, Mountain, 64 DEER Columbian Black-tailed, 13 Rocky Mountain Mule, 18 ELK American, 19 Roosevelt, 20 FISHER, 70 FOX, Cascade Red, 67 GOAT, Cascade Mountain, 21 GOPHER, Rainier Pocket, 52 HARE Cascade Varying, 48 Washington Varying, 47 LYNX, Canada, 80 MARMOT, Cascade Hoary, 28 MARTEN, Northwestern Pine, 68 MINK, 71 MOLE Coast, 58 Townsend, 57 Gibbs Shrew-Mole, 58 MOUSE Cascade Meadow, 54 Cascade Red-Backed, 56 House, 82 Mountain Lemming, 55 Northwestern Jumping, 56 Olympic Meadow, 54 Oregon Meadow, 53 Washington White-Footed, 51 MUSKRAT, 82 OTTER, Pacific, 75 PIKA, Cascade, 38 PORCUPINE, Yellow-Haired, 44 RACCOON, Pacific, 26 RAT Norway, 82 Western Bushy-Tailed Wood, 49 SHREW Bendire Water, 60 Cinereous, 60 Navigator Water, 60 Olympic Dusky, 59 Trowbridge, 60 Wandering, 59 SKUNK Little Spotted, 76 Puget Sound Striped, 77 SQUIRREL Cascade Flying, 36 Douglas Pine, 34 Oregon Flying, 82 Washington Mantled Ground, 33 WEASEL Least, 73 Puget Sound, 82 Washington, 72 WOLF, 66 WOLVERINE, 74

INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES

Aplodontia rufa rainieri, 43 Canis latrans lestes, 64 lupus fuscus, 66 Castor canadensis leucodonta, 39 Cervus canadensis nelsoni, 19 canadensis roosevelti, 20 Citellus saturatus, 33 Clethrionomys gapperi cascadensis, 56 Corynorhinus rafinesque townsendii, 62 Eptesicus fuscus bernardinus, 82 Erethizon dorsatum epixanthum, 44 Felis concolor oregonensis, 78 Glaucomys sabrinus fuliginosus, 36 sabrinus oregonensis, 82 Gulo luscus luteus, 74 Lasconycteris noctivagans, 62 Lepus americanus cascadensis, 48 americanus washingtonii, 47 Lutra canadensis pacifica, 75 Lynx canadensis canadensis, 80 rufus fasciatus, 79 Marmota caligata cascadensis, 28 Martes caurina caurina, 68 pennanti, 70 Mephitis mephitis spissigrada, 77 Microtus longicaudus macrurus, 54 oregoni oregoni, 53 richardsonii arvicoloides, 54 Mus musculus, 82 Mustela ermina gulosa, 73 ermina streatori, 82 frenata washingtoni, 72 vison energumenos, 71 Myotis californicus caurinus, 82 epotis pacificus, 82 lucifugus alascensis, 82 volans longicrus, 61 yumanensis saturatus, 61 Neotoma cinerea occidentalis, 49 Neurotrichus gibbsii gibbsii, 58 Ochotona princeps brunnescens, 38 Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, 13 hemionus hemionus, 18 Ondatra zibethicus osoyoosensis, 82 Oreamnos americanus americanus, 21 Peromyscus maniculatus oreas, 51 Phenacomys intermedius oramontis, 55 Procyon lotor psora, 26 Rattus norvegicus norvegicus, 82 Scapanus orarius orarius, 58 townsendii, 57 Sorex bendirii bendirii, 60 cinereus cinereus, 60 obscurus setosus, 59 palustris navigator, 60 trowbridgii trowbridgii, 60 vagrans vagrans, 59 Spilogale gracilis latifrons, 76 Tamias amoenus affinis, 82 amoenus ludibundus, 31 townsendii cooperi, 31 townsendii townsendii, 82 Tamiasciurus douglasii douglasii, 34 Thomomys talpoides shawi, 52 Ursus americanus altifrontalis, 24 Vulpes fulva cascadensis, 67 Zapus princeps trinotatus, 56

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—Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.

—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by underscores.

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