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state that moles are not uncommon in the region, but they have escaped 

 my personal observation. Wood (6) reports moles as very common on the 

 dunes of Berrien County, Michigan. Runways such as made by moles are 

 very common in the wooded dunes and I have even seen one such run- 

 way in the open sand at the top of a blowout. Traps set in these 

 runways yielded many deer mice, occasionally prairie and pine voles, 

 but never moles. It is well known that pine voles make runways es- 

 sentially like those of moles and the evidence points to the vole as a 

 more frequent maker of such runways in the wooded dunes than the 

 mole. 



Short-tailed shrew (Blurina brevicaudu talpoides Gapper) : Five 

 specimens secured, a pair taken in traps in runways in sphagnum and 

 cranberry at edge of an interdunal pond, one in a white pine swamp, 

 and two in the treeless portion of the subdunal swamp. None were 

 taken in the wooded dune region. This shrew did not appear to be 

 common. Very rarely were any of the numerous collected deer mice 

 ever molested in a manner suggestive of the usual depredations of short- 

 tailed shrews. Traps were usually baited with bacon as a special in- 

 ducement to shrews. Of the two taken in the sphagnum and cranberry, 

 one was captured on checking up the trap line backwards after the 

 night's catch had been taken out thus showing these shrews to be active 

 by day and to be little frightened by persons working around their 

 habitat. Measurements of the two males: total length 122, 103; tail 

 28, 21; hind foot 17.5, 14 mm. Of the three females: 112, 118, 105; 

 22, 28, 21; and 15, 17, 15.5 mm. 



Red bat (Nycteris borealis Mueller) : One afternoon in mid-summer 

 I saw a curious looking object in some blackberry bushes. Almost as 

 soon as I recognized it to be a female red bat it flew away. Bats are 

 frequently seen on summer evenings and probably represent most of 

 the species of bats recorded for the state by Hahn (4). The red bat 

 is the only one seen sufficiently close to admit of identification. No 

 specimens were secured. 



Timber wolf (Canis hjcuon Schi-eber) : Timber wolves have prob- 

 ably been extinct in the dune region for some years. Residents state 

 that wolves have been seen recently and if .such is the case the animals 

 are mo.^^t likely the prairie wolf or coyote. Dice (2) records timber 

 wolves as having been taken at Lakeside, Berrien County, Michigan, 

 about 1909 and says that in 1911 four were killed southwest of Three 

 Oaks, Michigan, just over the Indiana line, .'carcely 20 miles away. 

 Among some deer bones picked up in a blowout was a considerable por- 

 tion of the left ramus of a member of the genus Canis. The carnassial 

 is the only complete tooth in it. It measures (crown) 25 x 10 mm., 

 height of main cusp 13 mm. The length of premolar and molar series 

 of teeth (alveoli) is 83 mm. Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., says the carnas- 

 sial "is below maximum for dog and therefore not diagnostic of wolf, 

 though its size is rather great". 



Prairie wolf or coyote (Canis latrans Say) : Probably the animal 

 referred to by residents when they say that wolves still inhabit or have 

 lately been seen in the dune region. The species is not recorded by 



