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Chapanoke and Currituck. At the latter place the conditions were 

 more favorable and they were much more common. Here they 

 were trapped in marshy meadows grown up with Juncus and grass. 

 Such places are scarce at Chapanoke, and there they were also 

 obtained in cultivated fields and in patches of Hypnuin in the pine 

 woods." 



10. Mus musculus (L.). House Mouse. 



Two skulls and one skin of this foreigner are in the collection. 

 No label is attached to the skin, but from the numbers on the skulls 

 they evidently were taken at Chapanoke. 



11. Sciurus carolinensis Gniel. Carolinian Gray Squirrel. 



No specimens taken. " Only one observed at Currituck, but re- 

 ported to be fairly common in all localities." 



12. Putorius vison lutreocephalus (Harl.). Carolinian Mink. 



" Several skins seen, which had been taken at Chapanoke, but 

 no specimens obtained either there or at Currituck. They were re- 

 ported as common in suitable localities at each place. They are 

 considered very destructive to poultry." 



13. Procyon lotor (L.). Raccoon. 



" Reported to be fairly common. One or two skins were seen, 

 taken near Chapanoke." 



14. Blarina telmalestes Merr. Dismal Swamp Mole Shrew. 



Three skins with skulls, two from Chapanoke and one from Cur- 

 rituck, represent this animal. The Currituck specimen is stated 

 to have been " obtained in a patch of Juncus in a wet piece of woods 

 near the Sound." The Chapanoke pair were taken in " moss in 

 pine woods," according to attached labels. The latter, in measure- 

 ments and skull characters, agree essentially with brevicauda of 

 Pennsylvania, showing no tendency to the much smaller size of 

 carolinensis, two specimens of which were obtained in the same local- 

 ity (Chapanoke) and in a very similar kind of place. The Curri- 

 tuck specimen corresponds very closely to Dr. Merriam's diagnosis 

 of telmalestes, having a larger foot and light colored teeth. 



If we assume that telmalestes is an isolated swamp species uncon- 

 nected with the habitat of brevicauda (an opinion which we are in- 

 clined to think a correct one), the existence of a large Blarina, like 

 brevicauda, and the small species (or subspecies?) carolinensis at 

 Chapanoke in the same kind of woods, is somewhat puzzling when 



