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Manitoba. The species is reported plentiful at all of the 

 above-named places, except Morden. 



Rosser writes that it is common at Lake Winnipegosis. 



Russell obtained a single specimen at Grand Rapids where 

 it is very rare.- Preble got several hunter's skins from Norway 

 House. ^ Professor Robert Bell says:^ "It is common around 

 Norway House. Occurs about Oxford House and Nelson 

 River House on the Churchill River." 



Audubon and Bachman say:^ "We found this interesting 

 Flying-squirrel in abundance at Quebec, and many of them 

 were offered for sale in the markets of that city during our 

 sojourn there. It appears, indeed, to take the place of the 

 common small Flying-squirrel of the United States (P. volucella) 

 in lower Canada, where we did not observe the latter east of 

 Montreal." 



It is recorded for New Brunswick," Nova Scotia,^ Prince 

 Edward's Island,^ Big Island on Mackenzie River,^ Fort 

 Liard, Isle a la Crosse, and Lac du Brochet.^" I got a specimen 

 at Fort Resolution in 1907. 



Thus the northern Flying-squirrel is a species of the 

 true Canadian zone east of the Rockies. It is to be looked 

 for in all the wooded parts of Manitoba, though apparently 

 most abundant in the heavily timbered parts of the south 

 and west. 



ENvi- I have never seen or heard of Flying-squirrels far away 



MENT from large timber whose hollow trunks, or woodpeckers' holes 



afford its favourite nesting places. It is so nearly dependent 



on the woodpeckers for its tenement quarters that it will not be 



found where no woodpeckers are. 



^ Expl. Far. North, 1898, p. 249. 

 ^ N. A. Fauna, No. 22, 1902, p. 44. 



* Rep. Prog. Can. Geol. Surv., 1882-3-4, App. II, p. 48 DD. 



* Quad. N. A., 1849, Vol. Ill, p. 203. 



* A. L. Adams, Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, P- 99- 



^ J. B. Gilpin, Trans. Inst. Nat. Hist. Nova Scotia, 1869, Vol. II, p. 14. 

 « C. B. Bagster, Pr. Ed. Id., 1861, p. 88. 

 ^Monog. Rodentia, Sciuridae. J. A. Allen, 1877, p. 662. 

 ^° R. MacFarlane, Mam. N. W. T., Proc. U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 749. 



