Mammals Of Kansas

Author : E. Lendell Cockrum
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484572385
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Mammals of Kansas, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) written by E. Lendell Cockrum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mammals of Kansas, Vol. 7 Kansas is the meeting ground of the Great Plains grassland fauna and the eastern, deciduous forest fauna. Here, biologically, the East meets the West. Several kinds of mammals reach their north ern limits and other kinds reach their southern limits in the state. The result is that Kansas, although relatively uniform climatically and topographically, has more kinds of mammals than most states east of the Rocky Mountains. Several reports have been published on the mammals of the state in the past 100 years. Knox (1875) published the first inclusive list of the 60 mammals then known to occur in the state. Cragin (1885) made some additions to the list, and I. A. Allen (1874, 1895) and Baker (1889) published accounts of species found and of observa tions made at various places in the western part of the state. Lantz (1905a, 1905b) published two accounts of the mammals of Kansas which summarized all information available to him on distribution and economic importance of the kinds known to occur in the state. Unfortunately for mammalogy, an admirable account of the mam mals of the state prepared by A. Remington Kellogg as a master's thesis at the University of Kansas was never published. Hibbard (1933, 1944) published check-lists of the mammals of the state, listing 109 kinds in 1938 and 120 kinds in 1944. Although Black (1937) published the first major account of our mammals, he omitted mention of kinds, believed to have become extinct within historic time. Paul B. Allen (1940) published an account of the mammals of the state but did not distinguish between species and subspecies in his discussions of geographic ranges and characteristics; thus much confusion results from the use of his paper. In addition to the larger papers mentioned above, many shorter papers have been published, consisting chiefly of notes on life his tories, new records of occurrence, extensions of recorded ranges, and mention of specimens in monographs. All such publications known to the writer are listed in the bibliography at the end of this paper. 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.