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are as follows: In North Carolina, Roan Mountain; in Minnesota, Fort 

 Eipley and Elk Eiver; in the Hudson Bay territory, Moose Factory 

 and Ivupert Uouse; ' in Quebec, Godbout (about ISO miles east of the 

 Saguenay Eiver); in Nova Scotia, Halifax. 



If a line Avere drawn connecting the outlying- i^oints above mentioned, 

 it would lougldy indicate the range of the species, as recorded in the 

 literature, except in one or two directions to be mentioned presently. 

 The range as thus indicated extends on the north to New Brunswick, 

 James l>ay, and Manitoba, on the west to ^Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, 

 and on the south to Tennessee and North Carolina. 



Audubon and Bachman sum up their knowledge of the distribution 

 of the species as follows: 



This species is foiiud sparingly in all the Northern and Eastern States. Dr. Rich- 

 ardson supitoses it to exist as far north as Lake Superior. We obtained a specimen 

 5 miles from the Falls of Niagara, on the Canada side, and have traced it in all 

 the New England States. We received specimens from Dr. Brewer, obtained near 

 Boston, and from W. O. Ayres, esq., from Long Island. We caught a few of these 

 animals near New York, and obtained others from various parts of the State. We 

 saw a specimen at York, Pa., and found another at Frankfort, east of Philadelphia. 

 We captured one in the valleys of the Virginia ^Mountains, near the Red Sulphur 

 Springs [West Virginia], and received another from the valleys in the mountains of 

 North Carolina, near the borders of South Carolina, and presume it may follow the 

 valleys of the Alleghany ridge as far to the south as those latitudes. We have never 

 found it in South Carolina or Georgia, but to the west we have traced it in Ohio and 

 the northern jtarts of Tennessee. - 



A Canadian writer, Mr. E. Bell, gives the species as common at Moose 

 Factor}^, James Bay.^ Eichardson had several specimens supposed to 

 be from Moose Factory, but he doubts that they were really from that 

 locality. He writes on this point as follows: 



As the most southern fur posts depending upon Moose Factory are situated upon 

 the borders of Lake Superior, it is probable that they [the "Moose Factory " speci- 

 mens] came from that quarter.^ 



Whatever may be the truth as regards Eichardson's specimens, the 

 fact of the occurrence of the species at Moose Factory is established by 

 specimen No. 15001 of the National Museum collection, which was 

 received from Dr. Walton Hayden in 1881. 



There was also iu the National Museum prior to 1885 a si)ecimeu (No. 

 8901) received from B. E. Eoss, of the Hudson Bay Company, who col- 

 lected it at Eupert House in 1867 .^ There seems to be no reason to 



'This specimen is no longer iu the Museum. It was sent some years ago to Cam- 

 bridge, England. 



'^Quad. of North America, II, 1851, ]>. 142. 



^Canadian Geol. Survey, Montreal. 1884, 48 DD. 



•■Fauna Bor. Amer., p. 13. 



•''Rupert House is on James Bay, a little northeast of Moose Factory. The speci- 

 men, an alcoholic, was -sent to the museum of Cambridge University. England, 

 in 188.'5, where it is still presumably to be found. Two shrews were received with 

 the mole. 



