THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. QI 
plants or vegetables and opening up passages where pine mice 
and other injurious mammals may follow. 
Mr. Wilson concludes solely on the basis of food that the mole 
is beneficial to the farmer, but Mr. Rhoads points out that it is 
unfair to class the earthworm as injurious since it has been 
shown to be a most important factor in increasing the arable 
quality of soil. And as the destroyer of countless earthworms 
we can make out a strong case against the mole, irrespective of 
the damage directly or indirectly due to his surface tunnels. On 
his behalf, however, we can urge the benefit of his burrows in im- 
proving the soil on somewhat the same ground as those of the 
earthworm. 
The naked-tailed mole occurs throughout the State, but is most 
plentiful in open, cultivated country. It seems to be rare in the 
sandy pine barrens, though Mr. Rhoads states that he has seen 
its burrows there also. 
Scalops aquaticus Abbott, Cook’s Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 752. 
—Abbott, A Naturalist’s Rambles, 1885, p. 448.—Rhoads, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 32.—Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. 
e103; Dp. 198: 
Genus PARASCALOPS True. 
Hairy-Tailed Moles. 
Parascalops breweri (Bachman). 
Brewer’s Mole. 
PLATE 40, Fic. 2. 
Length 5.80 inches. Dark gray, tail blackish and thickly 
haired, rather longer than that of the preceding species, nose and 
hands similar. ‘This is a northern species occurring southward 
through the Alleghanies. There is only one record of its occur- 
rence in the State—a specimen in the collection of the Philadel- 
phia Academy, labeled “New Jersey, Edward Harris.” It will, 
no doubt, be found to occur in the mountains of Sussex, Warren 
and Passaic counties. 
