Oct. 1899. MAMMALS FROM OKLA. AND IND. TERRS. ELLIOT. 303 



"Badgers are not very common at White Horse; in fact, I 

 failed to see a single fresh hole, and it seems strange that they 

 were not found in the vicinity of the prairie dog towns. A lack 

 of their favorite food the Spermophiles may to some extent 

 influence their distribution. East of Alva they are quite com- 

 mon, and it was here I secured the fine female sent to the 

 Museum. This badger had dug three immense holes the night 

 before I caught it, and in one of them it was taken in a trap 

 which I had carefully concealed in the loose dirt well down in 

 the burrow. I never saw a more furious animal, and it gave me 

 no end of trouble before I finally secured its photograph. The 

 burrow I opened, looking for young badgers, extended back for 

 twenty feet, at a depth of four feet under the surface, and I am 

 positive was the result of only a few hours' digging. The soil 

 in that place, however, was a loose, black loam." (T. S.) 



ORDER INSECTIVORA. 

 FAM. TALPID.E. 



Scalops machrinus intermedius. 



Scalops m. intermedius, Elliot, Pub. Field Col. Mus., 

 Zool., 1899, p. 280. 



Seven examples. 6, Alva, Oklahoma Territory; i, Dougherty, 

 Indian Ter. 



This is one of the handsomest of the moles and is probably 

 not rare in the territories where the specimens were obtained, 

 but the weather was decidedly unfavorable and this probably 

 was the reason that so few were taken. 



"The weather was very cold during my stay at Alva, and the 

 ground was so frozen I obtained but few moles. They are, how- 

 ever, common about this region and apparently do most of their 

 work in the broken fields, where they have no tough soil to con- 

 tend with. In an alfalfa field I traced one runway 80 paces or 

 about 225 feet, and during this time noticed perhaps as many as 

 fifty short side runs, extending from the main one. In Indian 

 Territory this mole is common everywhere about Dougherty, but 

 luck seemed against my securing more than one specimen. I 

 could find no trace of its presence on the hills anywhere," (T. S.) 



Blairina brevicauda hulophaga. 



Blairina b. hulophaga. Elliot, Pub. Field Col. Mus., 

 1899, p. 287, Zoology. 



Two specimens. Dougherty, Indian Territory. 



