I 1 2 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



rare, even near Camden ; Gloucester Co., near Woodbury (seen by Johnson) ; 

 Ocean Co., Beach Haven, i. 



Miller's Woodland JumpiDg Mouse. Zapus insignis Miller. 



1 89 1. Zapus insignis Miller, American Naturalist, vol. 25, p. 742. 



Type locality. — Restigouche River, New Brunswick, Canada. 



Fau?ial distribtition. — Miller states that this mouse " is an inhabitant of the 

 Canadian zone, reaching the transition zone in 'boreal islands' only." I 

 have found it in both Pa. and N. J. in parts of the upper transition zone where 

 no " boreal islands " exist. It is found as far west as Lake Superior, south to 

 western Maryland, north to Labrador. 



Distribution in Pa. and N.J. — So far this handsome dweller of the dark 

 forests has been recorded from a few isolated spots in the Alleghanian regions 

 of Pa. and with certainty in one locality in N. J. In some favored localities 

 it is numerous, in others, apparently similar, they are not found. Owing to 

 its choice of the most densely-wooded evergreen tracts, its range is, and long 

 has been, rapidly contracting. 



Records in Pa. — Cambria Co., one collected near Cresson. — Rhoads. 

 Clinton Co., stated to have been seen among the trout streams by Nelson 

 and Peirce. Elk Co., a specimen from Howard Sta. in collection of Pierce 

 of Renovo. — Rhoads. Monroe Co., taken by W. A. Shryock near Pocono in 

 1893, the first record for Pa. One killed by Yaggie crossing Bushkill Creek 

 in 1894. — Rhoads. Potter Co., one was found dead near Cherry Spring, 

 June 23, 1898. — Todd. Somerset Co., a specimen in my collection taken 

 near New Lexington by Dr. H. D. Moore. — Rhoads. Sullivan Co., two taken 

 by Rhoads at Eaglesmere in August, 1896. Dr. Merriam states in a letter to 

 me that this species has been taken at Finzel, Md., ){ mile from Somerset 

 Co. line. — Rhoads. 



Records in N.J. — Morris Co. — "I secured four beautiful specimens of this 

 Zapus in woodland along a small rocky stream connecting a rhododendron 

 swamp with Lake Hopatcong near Nolan's Point." — Rhoads, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 29. 



Passaic Co. — "At Greenwood Lake a dormant jumping-mouse, from the 

 description given me by the finder, being evidently of this species, was dug 

 out of a gravel bank during my stay (Oct. 24th to 30th, 1896). I visited the 

 spot, and from its situation in deep woodland near a brook, I am morally 

 sure it was Z. insignis. The narrator of the incident stated that he knew the 

 meadow species very well, but that this one was -'much redder.'" — Rhoads, 

 ibid. 



Habits, etc. — I have never seen one of these animals alive, being acquainted 

 with them only by post-mortem examinations, and by their foot-prints along 



