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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



A JUMPING MOUSE (ZAPUS INSIGNIS MILLER), 

 NEW TO THE UNITED STATES. 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JK. 



Zapus insignis, hitherto known only from New Brunswick and 

 Nova Scotia,* is locally common in the eastern United States, 

 and will probably be found to be very generally distributed in 

 the eastern part of the Canadian fauna. The specimens that 

 have thus far come to my notice number forty-two. Of these, 

 the type and two others were collected by E. A. Bangs on the 

 Restigouche river, New Brunswick, in September, 1880 ; one 

 was taken in Northumberland county, N. B., in June, 1892, by 

 Gerrit S. Miller, and two (Nos. 4061 and 5785, collection of Dr. 

 0. Hart Merriam) were collected at (Jodbout, P. Q., Canada, by 

 Napoleon A. Comeau. The remainder were taken in the United 

 States, as follows: Eleven by Mr. Frank Bolles at Chocorua, N. 

 IL, in September, 1892; two by Mr. C. F. Batchelder at Keene, 

 Essex county, N. Y., in August, 1890; four at Elizabeth town, 

 Essex county, N. Y., and nineteen at Peterboro, Madison county, 

 N. Y., by the writer during the spring and summer of 1892. 



With, the possible exception of Mr. Comeau's specimens, of 

 whose history I am ignorant, these were all taken in the woods, 

 and generally close to water. The banks of running streams are 



e American Naturalist, xxv, August, 1891, 472. 



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