56 Merriam — The Lemming f<. oj the Genus Su'naptoniys. 



Landing, New Jersey, but uufortuuately gave it a new name. 

 t'^ijDnptoiiii/s sfonei.-^' In the same 3'ear (189o) J. B. tSteere re- 

 eorded it from Ann Arbor, Michigan.- 



In April, 1894, Oiitram Bangs recorded specimens from Ware- 

 ham and Plymouth, ^Massachusetts, and showed that ^'. stonei is 

 the same as S. cooperl Baird.^ 



In December, 1894, J. A. Allen recorded the northward exten- 

 sion of Si/iitq)toiiii/s to Andover and Gulquac Lake, New Bruns- 

 wick.''^ 



Early in Januar^^ 1895, S. N. Rhoads published a record of the 

 capture of a specimen of S. cooperi on Big Bushkill creek, Monroe 

 county, Pennsylvania.'^ This completes, so far as I am aware, 

 the published records of the type species. 



Although remains of the species had been found both in ' pel- 

 lets ' and stomachs of hawks and owls from the vicinity of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and although the species had been persistently 

 trapped for by a number of experienced mammal collectors, still 

 no s|)ecimen ' in the flesh ' was actually obtained until Fel)ruary 

 of the i)resent year (1896), when Vernon Bailey captured several 

 in a s})hagnum bog at Hyattsville, jNTaryland, only seven miles 

 from Washington. ]\Ir. Bailey has also secured a number at Elk 

 River, Minnesota, and I have a specimen from Knoxville, Iowa. 



During recent explorations in the great Dismal Swamj? in 

 southern Virginia. Dr. A. K. Fisher secured specimens of a new 

 Syaaptomijs, which is here described under the name S. helaletes. 



Specimens collected at Neosho, Kansas, man}^ years ago by the 

 late Captain B. F. Goss, and labeled S. e/ossii by Baird, are here 

 described as a subspecies under that name. 



A few months ago Napoleon A. Comeau, of Godbout, on the 

 north shore of the St. Lawrence, near the Gulf, sent me a speci- 

 men of Sijnaptomys which differs materiall}^ from S. cooperi This 

 animal has just been described by Outram Bangs under the name 

 »S'. fdtuax, from specimens collected by him at Lake Edward, 

 Quebec.'* Dr. Allen's New Brunswick specimens, which he has 

 kindly loaned me for examination, also belong to this northern 

 form. It is not improbable that all of the four forms here recog- 

 nized will be found to intergrade. 



In 1894 F. W, True described a new lemming mouse collected 

 by Lucien ^L Turner at Fort Chimo, Ungava, and named it Mic- 



* In the same paper Mr. Rhoads stated that the species " had pi-eviously 

 been detected by the U. S. Department of At^riculture in the rejects of a 

 burn owl living in the tower of the Smithsonian Institution" (Am. Nat., 

 Jan., 1893, 53). This statement was nnauthorized and incorrect. 



