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A JUMPING IVrOUSE (ZAPUS INSIGNIS ^MILLER)^-"" 

 NEW TO THE UNITED STATES. 



BY GERRIT S. IMILLEK, Jk. 



Zapus insignis, hitlierto known only from New Brunswick and 

 Nova Scotia * is locall}^ common in the eastern United States, 

 and will probably be found to l)e very generally distributed in 

 the eastern part of the Canadian fauna. The specimens that 

 have thus far come to my notice number forty-two. Of these, 

 the type and two others were collected by E. A. Bangs on the 

 Restigouche river, New Brunswick, in September, 1880 ; one 

 was taken in Northumberland county, N. B., in June, 1892, by 

 Gerrit S. Miller, and two (Nos. 40()1 and 5785, collection of Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam) were collected at Godbout, P. Q., Canada, l)y 

 Napoleon A. Comeau. The remainder were taken in the United 

 States, as follows: Eleven by Mr. Frank Bolles at Chocorua, N. 

 H., in September, 1892 ; two by Mr. C. F. Batchelder at Keene, 

 Essex county, N. Y., in August, 1890; four at Elizabethtown, 

 Essex county, N. Y., and nineteen at Peterboro, Madison county, 

 N. Y., by the writer during the s[)ring and summer of 1892. 



With the j)ossiblo exception of Mr. Comeau's s})ecimens, of 

 whose history I am ignorant, these were all taken in the woods, 

 and generally close to water. The banks of running streams are 



*See American Naturalist, xxv, August, 181>1, 472. 



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