Star-nosed Mole 



1137 



An adult male, taken at Cos Cob, Conn., July 7, 1909, 

 weighed 24 grammes. 



Life-history. 



The range of the species is fairly well worked out in the range 

 south and east, but the northern and western boundaries, as 

 shown on the map. No. 62, are 

 sure to be greatly modified by 

 fuller investigation. 



Dr. R. Bell gives it as com- 

 mon at Moose Factory;' F. W. 

 True records one from Moose 

 Factory and one from Rupert 

 House, James Bay;^ C. L. Her- 

 rick secured a single specimen 

 in Minnesota;' R. Kennicott 

 mentions* its occurrence at Fort 

 Ripley, Minn.; Bailey gives it 

 as scarce at Elk River, Minn.^ 

 At Duluth it is not uncommon; 

 there is a local specimen in the 

 High School Museum. 



It is entered as Manitoban, 

 on the authority of W. R. Hine, 



who assures me that specimens have been brought to his 

 taxidermist shop in Winnipeg; unfortunately, they were not kept. 



At Nipigon it was taken by G. S. Miller, who found it in 

 seemingly abundance at Peninsula Harbor also." 



Outram Bangs records' the capture of a specimen at 

 Lake Edward, south of Lake St. John, Quebec. But elsewhere' 



Fig. 261 — Skull of Star-nosed Mole (Condylura 



crislata). (li times natural size.) 

 rom Ttue's Rev. Am. Moles, P. U. S. N. M.. 1897. Plate IV 



' Mam. H. Bay (1884), App. II, p. 48, D. D. Geol. Surv. Can., 1885. 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIX (1896), 1897, p. 84. 



' Mam. Minn., 1892, p. 56. * Quad. 111., 1858, p. loi. 



' Rep. Cm. and Mam., U. S. Dept. Agr, (for 1887), 1888, p. 435. 



"Mam. Ont., Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist., April, 1897, P- 39- 



' Proc. Bi. Soc, Wash., March 9, 1896, p. 51. 



' Mam. Labrador, Am. Nat., July, 1898, p. 497. 



