PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. XIII, No. I, pp. i to 34. February 15, 191 1 



NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF THE LAKE 

 MAXINKUCKEE REGION. 1 



By Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark. 



While engaged in a biological survey of Lake Maxinkuckee, 

 Indiana, under the direction of the Honorable George M. Bowers, 

 U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, we took occasion to observe the 

 various species of mammals occurring in that region and to make 

 notes concerning their abundance and habits. Special attention 

 was paid to those species such as the muskrat, mink and raccoon, 

 whose habits relate them ecologically to the fishes and other life 

 of the lake. Many observations were made and noted, however, 

 regarding other species. These observations seem worth putting 

 on record and this we have endeavored to do in the present paper. 



Lake Maxinkuckee is a small glacial lake in the southwest corner 

 of Marshall County, Indiana. It is on the Terre Haute and Logans- 

 port Railroad (Vandalia Line), 34 miles south of South Bend, 

 Ind., 94 miles southeast of Chicago, and 149 miles north of Terre 

 Haute. 



The lake is about 2f miles long and about i\ miles wide. The 

 total area of the lake is 1854 acres. The greatest depth is 89 feet, 

 and most of the lake is more than 25 feet deep. 



The country surrounding the lake lies wholly in the glacial re- 

 gion of Indiana. The topographic features are somewhat varied. 

 There are numerous small hills with gentle slopes, and among them 



1 Published by permission of the Honorable George M. Bowers, United States 

 Commissioner of Fisheries. 



Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., February, 1911. 



