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in such values do not appear to be as great as the differences between 

 the plants might lead one to expect. The water in "pitchers" of pitcher 

 plants varies from weakly alkaline to weakly acid. 



NEW RECORDS OF INDIANA MAMMALS. 



Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., South Bend. 



The following new records within the state for Indiana mammals 

 are only such as might be expected and as have been predicted, however 

 the range of two species is extended to the northern boundary of the 

 state and one species will probably be exterminated from the state 

 within the next few years so that it seems worth while to make note 

 of them. With the exception of the coyote the records are based on 

 specimens which have been deposited in the United States National 

 Museum and the National Zoological Park. 



Masked Shrew, Sorex personatiis Geoffroy St. Hilaire. Two speci- 

 mens from Porter County caught in mouse traps baited with bacon 

 placed in the quaking bog at the south end of the tamarack swamp 

 opposite Mineral Springs Station of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South 

 Bend Railway. They were taken in the last week of October, 1923. 

 The vegetation wheie the traps were placed consisted of tall rushes, 

 .sphagnum, cranberries, pitcher plants, etc. The bog is very wet and 

 when standing in it one's feet are always in an inch or more of water. 

 Traps placed in the drier adjacent wooded swamp yielded only northern 

 white-footed mice. Several specimens of this mouse were also taken 

 in the line of traps which caught the shrews. The nearest previous 

 record in the state appears to be Logansport'. 



Coyote or Prairie Wolf, Canis latrans Say. The South Bend Tribune 

 of March 5, 1923, second section, page 1, contained a brief note regard- 

 ing the St. Joseph County Commissioners having paid a bounty on a 

 wolf. Following up the newspaper's information showed that Messrs. 

 August Buysse and C. Sargent while hunting foxes in the southwestern 

 paz't of St. Joseph County had followed an animal trailed by their dogs 

 and shot it about ten miles west by south of the city limits of South 

 Bend. It proved to be a female coyote. I had the opportunity of 

 seeing the skin. It is probable that this wolf wandered into St. Joseph 

 County from certain tamarack swamps in the Kankakee Valley, Laporte 

 County where residents say wolves occur. Coyotes have been previously 

 recorded from Laporte County and two specimens from Jasper County 

 are in the United States National Museum' killed in 1906. Inquiry at 

 the office of the county treasurer showed that no bounties on wolves 

 had been paid in St. Joseph County, at least in recent years, aside from 

 the present one. Some fox bounties were said to be paid nearly every 

 year. 



Jumping Mouse, Zapus hudsonicus (Zimmermann). One specimen 

 from Porter County in the large subdunal meadow just south of the 



^ Hahn, Walter Louis, Mammals of Indiana, 33d Ann. Kept. Dept. Geol. Nat. 

 Resources Indiana, 1908. 



