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Blatchley's "A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea."t Some others will be referred to farther on in connection with particular groups of animals.
 Notes on the vertebrate fossils ca'n be found in Dr. Sellards' papers on phosphate mentioned under economic geology (p. 158), and in earlier works cited therein ; and nuinerous references to fossil shells are given in the bibliographies in the First and Twelfth Annual Reports.
 ilanimals. As in mosf other thinly settled parts of the eastern United States, bears and deer can be found in almost any county in central Florida if one goes far enough from civilization and has good luck, and stories of the latter being killed appear in the local papers almost every day in the hunting season. Rabbits, squirrels, 'coons and 'possums are probably as common here as in other parts of the South. Noteworthy papers on our mammals have been published by S. N. Rhoads in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1894, 1895 and 1902, and by Outram Bangs in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 28, pp. 157-235, 1898.
 From an annotated list of North American land mammals by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.,$ it appears that at least forty species (not counting sub-species) can be found in our area, including the opossum, mole, 2 shrews, 6 bats, bear, wolf, gray fox, raccoon, weasel, mink, 2 skunks or polecats, otter, panther, wildcat, 8 native mice and rats, salamander, 3 squirrels, 2 rabbits, and deer. Several of them are classed as geographical varieties or sub-species peculiar to Florida and differing slightly from the more widely distributed forms in neighboring states. These forty are only about 2% of the total number known in North America, but about 30% o. the species occurring in the eastern United States.
 One of our most abundant mammals, very rarely seen but easily followed up, is the "salamander" (a rodent, Geonivs Floridanns). It travels underground in high pine land and old fields, throwing up mounds of sand every few feet, but never leaving its burrows open, at least in the-daytime. This particular species is

 t245 pages, 12 plates. Indianapolis, 1902.
 tU. S. Nat. Mkis. Bull. 79. xiv + 455 pp. "Dec. 31, 1912."