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Springs, West Virginia, and obtained specimens in western Virginia.^ 

 Mr. Bangs's collection contains .several specimens from White Snlpbur 

 Springs, West Virginia. To the west, the next records which I hate 

 found are those of Langdon^ and Brayton,^ who report that a specimen 

 was taken at Eome, in Adams County, Ohio, and that the species is 

 not rare in that locality. 



Mr. E. W. Vickers sent a specimen to the ISTational Museum from Ells- 

 worth, Ohio, and stated in a letter to me that he had also taken the 

 species at Berea and Canton. lie remarks: 



This mole seems to take the })lace of the common mole, S. aqiiaticiis or S. argen- 

 tatus, in the localities where I have lived — viz, Canton, Berea, and Ellsworth — fori 

 have never taken a siiecimen of these species. 



Dr. J. A. Allen mentions a specimen from Hollidaysburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, which is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. This locality is in Blair County, in the mountains 

 near Altoona. There are no records of the occurrence of the species 

 in eastern Pennsylvania, but Dr. Abbott mentioned it in 1808 among 

 the mammals of New Jersey, He remarks that it " is much less abun- 

 dant than the preceding [Scalops aquaticus], to which it bears a great 

 resemblance.^" 



No sjiecimens are referred to, and I know of none from the State in 

 any museum. It would seem, therefore, that the occurrence of the 

 species in New Jersey requires confirmation. 



All the New York specimens examined were from Lewis and Oneida 

 counties, in the northwestern part of the State, but Bachman had 4 

 specimens from Troy, Peusselaer County.'^ Baird remarks that the 

 species "is in reality very abundantly to be met with in the northern 

 part of the State, and apparently to the exclusion of the more vsouthern 

 species with white naked tail, S. aquaticus.^^'^ No specimens have been 

 taken in any part of southern or southeastern New York, so far as 

 I am aware. 



The type of the S]iecies came from Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, 

 and Dr. J. A. Allen mentions a specimen from Warwick, Franklin 

 County, as being in the Museum of Comparative Zoology." Dr. Coues 

 records its occurrence at Somerset, in Bristol County.^ 



If there are any records of the occurrence of the species in Vermont 

 or New Hampshire, they are unknown to me, but it is very probable 

 that this mole is found there. 



I have examined no specimens from Maine and know of but one 



iQnadrupeda of North Amer., II, 1851, p. 175. 



2 Ohio Geol. Surv. Kept., IV, 1882, p. 93, 94. 



3 Journ. Cincin. Soc. Xat. Hist., Ill, 1880, p. 302. 



" Geol. Surv. of New Jersey, 1868, p. 752. 



^ Aud. & Bach., Quad, of North Amer., II, p. 175. 



epifteenth Kept. N. Y. State Cabinet of Nat. Hist., 1862, Appendix A. 



TBull. Mus. Comp. Zoo]., I, No. 8, 1869, p. 222. 



8 Amer. Nat., XIV, 1880, p. 53. 



