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got only 8 specimensthere. At Two Brooks I secured 2 speci- 

 mens in a sphagnum bed by the brook and at Grog Brook two 

 more were taken on the barrens, also among the deep reddish 

 moss. At Murray Bay only 4 specimens were taken, all being 

 secured in a small sphagnum swamp, where they were apparently 

 common, but luck seemed against my securing many specimens. 

 Mr. Ferguson told me they^were found at Metapedia, though 

 I searched there for it in vain." (T. S.) 



13. Microtus fontigenus. 



Microtus fontigenus. Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896, 

 p. 48. 



Three examples of this vole were obtained at Lake Edward. 



" I secured Bangs' Vole in only one place near Lake Edward, 

 a sphagnum swamp by the railroad only a short distance south 

 of the Laurentide's House, and their runways were quite numer- 

 ous, but probably owing to the unusually wet weather then 

 prevailing, they were not much frequented. I trapped per- 

 sistently, but secured only 4 specimens. From what I learned 

 while at Lake Edward, Mr. Bangs got his specimens about a 

 mile north of the station, but I could not catch any specimens at 

 all there during five days' trapping." (T. S.) 



14. Synaptomys fatuus. 



Synaptomys fatuus. Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896^.47. 



Three specimens of this scarce species were procured at Lake 

 Edward. 



" Bangs' Lemming Vole must be a rather rare species even at 

 Lake Edward, for I spent nearly three weeks getting 3 speci- 

 mens. The first one was taken from a Microtus runway in the 

 sphagnum swamp near the Laurentide's House (where I secured 

 M. fontigenus), the second specimen was taken well up a steep 

 side hill in a trap set in a Evotomys runway under a log, while 

 the third one was taken among the rocks on a rather barren hill 

 in front of the station at Lake Edward, where there was very 

 little cover except dead huckleberry bushes." (T. S. ) 



15. Fiber zibethicus. 



Fiber zibethicus. Linn. Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 79. 



" I took four muskrats, two at Lake Edward and two at Grog 

 Brook, but unfortunately the former were lost through the 

 express company and the latter were destroyed in the fire at my 



