XXI. 



Drummond Vole, Common Meadow-mouse, Vole or 

 Ground -mouse of Manitoba, Marsh-mouse or 

 Brown Vole. 



Microtus pennsylvanicus drummondi (Aud. and Bach.). 



(Gr. Micros, small; oliis, ear; drummondi, in honour of Thomas Drummond, of 

 Forfar, Scotland, who accompanied Sir John Franklin on his 1825 Expedition as 

 naturalist, and collected the type of this sub-species.) 



Mus pennsylvanica Ord., 181 5, Guthrie Geog., 2nd Amer. 



ed., II, p. 292. 

 Microtus pennsylvanicus Rhoads, 1895, Amer. Nat. XXIX, 



p. 940. 

 Type Locality. — Meadows below Philadelphia, Penna. 



Arvicola drummondii AuD. and Bach., 1854, Quad. N. A., 



Ill, p. 166. 

 Microtus drummondi Trouessart, 1897, Cat. Mam., Pt. Ill, 



P- 5^3- 

 Type Locality. — Probably near Jasper House, Alta. 



French Canadian, le Campagnol de Drummond. 



Cree, Wah-wah-be-gah-nof-see. (Applied to all Mice.) 

 Tweedell gives it " fFah-be-gah-not'-see." 



Sauteau, Wah-be-gah-ndt'-see. 



OjiB., Ah-me'-ko W ah-wah-be-gah-nof-see (= Beaver- 

 mouse.) When Aneemeekong was asked for a 

 fuller explanation of the name he replied, "know 

 nothing, act like children, and steal." 



Chipewyan, Kloon'-ay. 



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