86 REVISION OF AMERICAN MOLES— TRUE. 



last-mentioned locality by Mr. Ernest W. Vickers. Mr. Vickers wrote 

 lue in December, 1805, that the star-uosed mole was authoritatively 

 known to occur in the following localities in Ohio : Cleveland and Berea, 

 Cnyaho.ua County; Canton, Stark County; Cuyahoga Falls, Summit 

 County; Suffield, Portage County; Weymouth, :Medina County; Ells- 

 worth, Mahoning County; Butler, Eichland County;^ Xew Philadel- 

 phia, Tuscarawas County.' He states that the last-mentioned locality 

 is the most southerly j)oiiit at which the species has been found in the 

 State. 



Mr. Charles Dury, secretary of the Cuvier Club of Cincinnati, in a 

 letter dated January 4, 189G, has, however, furnished me the following 

 information regarding the j)ossible occurrence of Condylura near that 

 city: 



There is one specimen of Condylura crisfafa in the Ciivier Club collection that was 

 sent to us from Indiana, near the Ohio State line, a few miles north of due west from 

 Cincinnati. This is the only specimen I have seen from the vicinity of this city. In 

 twenty-five years' collecting in this vicinity I have never run across it myself. So 

 it must bo exceedingly rare here. I believe there are no specimens in the Natural 

 History Society's collection. 



The first specimen from Indiana, according to Evermann and Butler,^ 

 was obtained near Denver, Miami County. It was dei)osited in the 

 museum of the Indiana Normal School and afterwards destroyed by fire. 

 Another specimen was obtained near Deedsville, in Miami County, 

 in 181)4. 



Prince Maximilian did not see anything of the species at New Har- 

 mony, on the southern boundary of Indiana, during his sojourn there 

 in 1833. He remarks: ^'- Scalops canadensis vriri't iiberall Haufen auf, 

 wie unser Maulwurf und ist sehr gemein, dagegen kommt hier Condy- 

 lura nicht vor, die in Pennsylvanien gemein ist."^ 



Miles regarded the species as rare in Michigan in 1861, and had seen 

 but one.^ Tenney saw one at Niles, Berrien County, in 1869.^ An 

 anonymous writer in Forest and Stream newspaper, 1877, remarks: "Is 

 rarely seen within the limits of the State [of Michigan], I believe, hav- 

 ing seen but one specimen, and heard of but two more." 



Messrs. Evermann and Butler, however, quote Prof. J. B. Steere as 

 stating that the species is abundant at Ann Arbor, in low swampy 

 ground which has been drained, and that he had taken it in Ionia 

 Countv.* 



' See Geol. Survey of Ohio, IV, p. 179, footnote. 



2 See his paper in the Third Annual Keport of the Ohio State Academy of Science. 

 His observations are also noted by Evermann and liutler in Proc. Indiana Acad. 

 Sci., 1803, p. 134. 



^Loc. cit. 



■•Max. zu Wied, Reise, I, ]». 174. 



•'■Catalogue of the Animals of Michigan, 18til. 



«Amer. Nat., V, 1871, p. 314. 



