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'''CATS: ISLA GUADALUPE



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| '''ISLAND'''  || '''COLLECTOR''' || '''INSTITUTION'''|| '''DATE'''|| '''NUMBER''' || '''SPECIMEN''' 
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| Isla Guadalupe ||[[HANNA, G. Dallas |G. D. Hanna]]  || CAS||July 17, 1922||CAS|| ''Felis silvestris'' ||Mammals
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=====<span style="color:#006400">In the News~</span>=====


February 4, 1879 [San Francisco Bulletin]: “Guadalupe Island....The island is under the jurisdiction of the Mexican Government, and is owned by Messrs. Flint, Boswell & Abbott, the last named member of the firm being Hon. C. S. Abbott of Salinas City...The island is overrun with mice, there being one, it is said, to every square inch of surface. As an offset to the mice, there are thousands of cats which have multiplied from tame cats turned loose there at some former period of time, and are as wild as they make them. Except for goats, cats and mice are the only animals found on the island. The party counted fourteen different kinds of birds, but saw no centipedes, tarantulas, snakes or other reptiles, and observed only one spider during their stay of four months...”


'''July 1, 1885 [San Diego Union]:''' “At the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco last week Rev. M. Green delivered the first of a series of lectures on the islands off the coast of Lower California, where he had been sent by the Academy to take scientific researches. He stated that Guadalupe Island, 100 miles from the mainland of San Diego, is several miles in extent, in the shape of a large table land, 3,000 feet high. Goats are quite numerous, while the island is literally overrun by cats and mice. No one seems to know how the one lone donkey got there. It contains some timber, the highest trees being fifty feet in height. A few fruit trees still exist, but are fast dying out. The island is said to be the summit of a submarine mountain chain. It will be remembered that Rev. Green set out from San Diego on this expedition to the Guadalupe Islands and was accompanied by Prof. Dunn, of San Luis Rey.”