50 Bangs — Mammals from Lake Edward, Qncltec. 



Color. — 01(1 adult: ui)per parts dark smoke gray, sliglitly darkci' along 

 the middle of the back, causing an indistinct median band ; under parts 

 white, the hairs plumbeous at their base; feet and hands white; tail bi- 

 colored, ])lack above, white below, hairy, and longer than the head and 

 body ; jjencil long. 



The size, proportions, and skull are the same as in true canadenKii^. 



This wliite-footed mouse is the Northern representative of P. canudensis, 

 which it resembles very closely in everything but color. When a large 

 series of each is laid out side by side the difierence in color is very strik- 

 ing, the uniform gray of the adults of abietornm being in marked contrast 

 to the russet and yellow shades of the adults of cunadeiii^iif. P. (dnetonna 

 has a wide range in the spruce and fir forests of the north. It was not 

 common at Lake Edward, and, as all we caught were immature, I have 

 taken for the type a fine old adult from James river, Nova Scotia, from 

 whence I have a good series, collected by Mr. C. H. Goldthwaite in the 

 summer of 1894. 



Zapus insignis Miller. Woodland Jumping Mouse. 1 specimen. 



Either Zapus insignis was very rare at Lake Edward or they had already 

 hibernated, the weather being quite cold, with a heavy frost nearly every 

 night during our stay. This species is very easy to catch and we set many 

 traps in its favorite haunts along the little brooks in the forest. The only 

 one caught was exceedingly fat. 



Lepus americanus Erxl. American Hare. 4 specimens. 



Very alnuidant. ^Ye caught a number in steel traps baited with salt 

 pork. These traps were set after the Indian fashion, a semicircle of slabs 

 cut from the spruces being set up and the top covered over with spruce 

 boughs. The bait was put inside and the trap in the opening. One morn- 

 ing I shot a hare asleep on top of a board fence three feet high, beside the 

 railroad in the settlement. How he could have jumped onto this fence 

 and balanced himself there is a nij'stery. 



Vespertilio subulatus Say. Bat. 1 specimen. 

 Two bats of this species flew into the liouse on ditierent evenings. 



Blarina brevicauda (Say). Short-tailed Shrew, o specimens. 

 Common everywhere. 



Sorex (Microsorex) hoyi Baird. Hoy's Shrew. 1 specimen. 

 Apparently rare. 



Sorex (Neosorex) albibarbis (Cope). Water Shrew. 1 specimen. 

 Apparently rare. 



Soiex personatus Geoff. St. Hilaire. Connnon Shrew. 18 specimens. 

 Extremely alnunlunt and inhal)iting every variety of country. 



