XIX. 



The Arctic Deermouse, Tree-mouse, or Wood- • 



mouse. 



Peromyscus maniculatus arcttcus (Mearns). 



(Gr. Pera, a pouch; mys, a mouse; L. maniculatus, 'with little gloves,' on account 

 of its white paws; L. arcHcus, expressing the far north habitat of the present 

 form.) 



Hesperomys maniculatus Wagner, 1845, Wiegmann's Arch, 

 f. Naturg., XI, Bd. I, p. 148. 



Peromyscus maniculatus Bangs, 1898, Am. Nat., XXXII, p. 

 496, July, 1898. 



Type Locality. — The Moravian Settlements on the north- 

 east coast of Labrador. Probably Nain. 



Hesperomys leucopus arcticus Mearns, 1890, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., II, p. 285. 

 Peromyscus maniculatus arcticus Wilfred H. Osgood, in MSS. 



1908, considers this the type form of the group. 



Type Locality. — Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River at the 

 junction of the Liard River. 



French Canadian, la Souris a patte blanche du 

 Canada. 



Cree, Appecoosesh^ or Appek-kusis"^ (according to 

 Sir John Richardson). 



Ah-pik'-wa-sees (according to the French Cree 

 half-breeds on Athabaska River. Compare 

 Ah-pik-wa-jees, their name for Bat. 



Yankton Sioux, Tis-pay-na. 



*F. B. A., 1829, Vol. I, p. 142. 



'Arctic Search Exped., 1851, Vol. II, p. 387. 



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