56 Merriam The Lemmings of the Genus Synaptomys. 



Landing, New Jersey, but unfortunately gave it a new name. 

 Synaptomys stonei.*" 1 In the same year (1893) J. B. Steere re 

 corded it from Ann Arbor, Michigan. 8 



In April, 1894, Outram Bangs recorded specimens from Ware- 

 ham and Plymouth, Massachusetts, and showed that S. stonei is 

 the same as S. cooperi Baird. 9 



In December, 1894, J. A. Allen recorded the northward exten 

 sion of Synaptomys to Andover and Gulquac Lake, New Bruns 

 wick. 12 



Early in January, 1895, S. N. Rhoads published a record of the 

 capture of a specimen of S. cooperi on Big Bushkill creek, Monroe 

 county, Pennsylvania. 13 This completes, so far as I am aware, 

 the published records of the type species. 



Although remains of the species had been found both in ' pel 

 lets ' and stomachs of hawks and owls from the vicinity of Wash 

 ington, D. C., and although the species had been persistently 

 trapped for by a number of experienced mammal collectors, still 

 no specimen ' in the flesh ' was actually obtained until February 

 of the present year (1896), when Vernon Bailey captured several 

 in a sphagnum bog at Hyattsville, Maryland, only seven miles 

 from Washington. Mr. Bailey has also secured a number at Elk 

 River, Minnesota, and I have a specimen from Knoxville, Iowa. 



During recent explorations in the great Dismal Swamp in 

 southern Virginia. Dr. A. K. Fisher secured specimens of a new 

 Synaptomys, which is here described under the name S. helaletes. 



Specimens collected at Neosho, Kansas, many years ago by the 

 late Captain B. F. Goss, and labeled S. gossii by Baird, are here 

 described as a subspecies -under that name. 



A few months ago Napoleon A. Comeau, of Godbout, on the 

 north shore of the St. Lawrence, near the Gulf, sent me a speci 

 men of Synaptomys which differs materially from S. cooperi. This 

 animal has just been described by Outram Bangs under the name 

 S. fatuus, from specimens collected by him at Lake Edward, 

 Quebec. 14 Dr. Allen's New Brunswick specimens, which he has 

 kindly loaned me for examination, also belong to this northern 

 form. It is not improbable that all of the four forms here recog 

 nized will be found to intergrade. 



In 1894 F. W. True described a new lemming mouse collected 

 by Lucien M. Turner at Fort Chimo, Ungava, and named it Mic- 



* In the same paper Mr. Rhoads stated that the species " had previously 

 been detected by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in the rejects of a 

 barn owl living in the tower of the Smithsonian Institution" (Am. Nat., 

 Jan., 1893, 53). This statement was unauthorized and incorrect. 



