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but i)ul)lication was deferred in the li()[)e that a specimen of the 

 animal itself might be ol)tained. 



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

 specimens of Synaptornijs on the summit of Roan Mountain, 

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

 mice (Erotom]/-'<). The first of these, an adult male, was caught 

 August 29, 1892, at the moutli of its runway in a bed of dr\^ moss 

 overrun by mountain bluets (Houstonia serpyUifolia) in the edge 

 of a grove of balsam firs (A!)ks fnizcri). The second specimen, 

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

 bog near the spiing that supplies the Cloudland Hotel with 

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

 <),OC>0 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 ' trai)s left 

 witli liim, in the hope of securing additional specimens, and lias 

 Ijcen rewarded l)y the capture of two adults — one in the same 

 sphagnous bog from which my second specimen came, the oilier 

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

 here iniblished 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 

 Pennsvlvania and New Jersev. 



