Many range maps are inaccurate, especially in the northern part of the region, because they do not include recent records from the literature. For the northern yellow bat, the distribution shown in the range map and that described in the text do not agree. The book closes with two appendices, a glossary, selected references, and index. Measurements of the relatively large Sorex longirostris fisheri were not included in the measurements provided for the southeastern shrew, and those that are provided, presumably of S. l. eionis and S. l. longirostris, average smaller in total length and tail length than those given for the pygmy shrew. The Glossary provides definitions for 184 terms used in the text.
Some definitions are inaccurate or too brief.
The list of Selected References is not balanced geographically and some references have more recent editions that were available in time to be included here. Many lapses in the text can be attributed to an antiquated manuscript that's been hibernating for too long. Brown follows recent scientific evidence to assign the jumping mice to the family Dipodidae and the rats, mice, and voles to the family Muridae. Finally, Burma and the Celebes have changed their names to Myanmar and Sulawesi, respectively, in the last decade. There is another issue about common names that deserves mention.