Karifta^ Academy of Science. 241 



NOTES ON KANSAS MAMMALS, 1915. 



D. E. Lantz. 



SINCE my last previous publication of additions to the Kan- 

 sas list of mammals^ several additional discoveries have 

 been made in connection with work done by members of the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. The recent publication of a review of North 

 American moles by Hartley H. T. Jackson- shows that instead 

 of a single form of the common garden mole, there are un- 

 doubtedly three forms in the state. 



Scalopus aquaticus machrinoides Jackson. The type locality 

 of this subspecies is Manhattan, Kan. The form has a wide 

 distribution west of the Mississippi river, ranging from central 

 Minnesota and southeastern South Dakota southward in the 

 Missouri valley, except in eastern Iowa, and westward over 

 eastern Nebraska and northeastern Kansas. It occurs over the 

 greater part of Missouri south to extreme northern Arkansas. 



Scalopus aquaticus carjji Jackson. The American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York, has specimens of this form 

 taken at Long Island, Kan. The type locality of the subspecies 

 is Neligh, Neb., and it was named in honor of Merritt Carey, 

 of that .place, who was long connected with the Biological Sur- 

 vey as a field naturalist. This mole is distributed over the 

 greater part of central and western Nebraska, northwestern 

 Colorado, and northwestern Kansas. 



Scalopus aquaticus ifitermedius (Elliott). The type of this 

 subspecies was collected at Alva, Okla. While specimens from 

 Kansas are lacking, it is undoubtedly the form to be found in 

 the state in the region south and west of the Arkansas river. 



A bat taken by me at Medicine Lodge, Kan., in 1905 has 

 been identified as Myotis velifer incantus (Allen). This form 

 was previously known from San Antonio, Tex., and Carlsbad, 

 N. M., and its occurrence in Kansas is a wide extension of its 

 known range. It is the more surprising because the forms 

 taken at Marble Cave, Mo., and Fort Reno, Okla., have been 

 typical M. velifer. Such a curious crossing of range in mam- 



1. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 22, p. 336; 1908. 



2. North Aniftrican Fauna, No. 38; Sept. 30, 1915. 



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