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Zimmerman 3 is the first name given to the South American species 

 from Cayenne ; D. aurita Max. Wied 4 (=D. azarce Temm.) becoming 

 under the ruling of Thomas (la), D. karkinophaga aurita (Max. 

 Wied). 



2. Dorcelaphus virginianus (Bodd.). Virginia Deer. 



It has been many years since one of these animals was killed in 

 any of the localities visited. Several are confined in a game pre- 

 serve surrounding Sunfish Pond in Warren County, and a few in 

 the Dalrymple preserve on the east side of Long Lake in Sussex 

 County. 



3. ? Cervus canadensis (Erxl.). Wapiti. 



A hunter near Delaware Gap declared that his grandfather, who 

 "killed the last Elk shot in Pike County," Pennsylvania, stated that 

 sometimes the hounds would drive both elk and deer across the 

 Delaware River onto the Kittatinny Mountain. That the latter spe- 

 cies has quite recently been known to find temporary refuge in Sus- 

 sex County on this account is easily proved, and it is probable that 

 in this manner the Wapiti- has either voluntarity or involuntarily 

 become a member of the New Jersey fauna within the present cen- 

 tury. 



4. Lepus americanus Erxl. Varying Hare. 



Once pretty numerous in the tamarack swamps of northern New 

 Jersey, this species now seems to be exterminated. Mr. Larkin 

 Hazen stated that he shot one about six winters ago on Greenwood 

 Mountain just across the State line in Orange County, New York. 

 They used to frequent a small swamp near Culver's Gap, but I was 

 unable to find any trace of them there. 



5. Lepus sylvaticus Bachm. Wood Hare. 



No specimens of this common species were secured. On this ac- 

 count I am unable to say whether the subspecies transitionalis is 

 found in northern New Jersey. 



6. Synaptomys cooperi Baird. Cooper's Vole. 



Four specimens of Cooper's Vole were secured. The first, an 

 adult male, was trapped in a wet meadow close to woodland among 

 sphagnum and tussocks of Juncus ; and the second, an adult nurs- 

 ing female, under a heap of stones along the edge of dry wood-land 

 but quite near swampy ground. Both these specimens were caught 



| 3 Geog. Gesch., 1870, p. 226. 

 * Beitr. Nat. Bras., 1826, p. 395. 

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