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but publication was deferred in the hope that a specimen of the 

 animal itself might be obtained. 



During the past season I had the good fortune to capture two 

 specimens of Synaptomys on the summit of Roan Mountain, 

 North Carolina, in traps set for shrews (Sorex) and red-backed 

 mice (Evotomys). The first of these, an adult male, was caught 

 August 29, 1892, at the mouth of its runway in a bed of dry moss 

 overrun by mountain bluets (Houstonia serpyllifolia} in the edge 

 of a grove of balsam firs (Abies frazeri). The second specimen, 

 an adult female, was caught September 8 in a wet sphagnum 

 bog near the spring that supplies the Cloudland Hotel with 

 water. Both were taken at an altitude of 1,830 meters (above 

 6,000 ft.). Before leaving the mountain these specimens were 

 shown to Mr. Elmer R. Edson, a young man temporarily resid- 

 ing there. Mr. Edson promised to set the ' cyclone ' traps left 

 with him, in the hope of securing additional specimens, and has 

 been rewarded by the capture of two adults one in the same 

 sphagnous bog from which my second specimen came, the other 

 in a grove of balsams on the dry summit. In view of the records 

 here published from North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and 

 New York, it seems not unlikely that Baird's type really came 

 from the latter State, or possibly even from New Jersey, the State 

 in which the donor of the specimen, Mr. Cooper, lived. 



Persons interested in the capture of rare mammals will do well 

 to keep a sharp lookout for this species in the cooler parts of 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



