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seen it in the clear open waters of a mountain brook at 

 Crow's Nest Pass, B. C. It darted about swiftly in the current, 

 without apparent effort, the snout and back only out. 



V. Bailey found it rather scarce at Elk River, Minn., and 

 adds,' " I have always found them living in holes in creek banks; 

 in the spring of 1886 a neighbour caught and gave me one that 

 he found swimming in a small pond of snow water in a hollow 

 near his house." 



My Carberry specimen was captured August 28, 1884, in 

 the runway of a Marsh-mouse, and I doubt not it preys on 

 them regularly. It was a female evidently suckling young. 



Here our knowledge of its habits ends. The best we can 

 do is turn to the uncertain light of analogy. 



The Crossopus is a European congener that may help in 

 this. It is a species that leads the life of a miniature Otter, 

 swimming and diving with the greatest ease, and taking to the 

 water as an escape from its enemies. It feeds on flesh, insects, 

 and moUusks, and nests in a hole in a bank by the water. 



According to Bell * it produces 6 young at a brood. 



' Rep. Om. Mam. U. S. Dep. Agr. for 1887 (1888), p. 435. 

 * Br. Quad., 1874, p. 154. 



