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tailed Jummping-mouse, seems to have escaped general 

 notice. Of its actual distribution in our big state we 

 know very little, its occurrence having been noted only 

 here and there. Its habits and timidity as well as 

 the ease with which it escapes, aid in keeping it an 

 unknown quantity in the fauna of most localities. A 

 species with such ph\^sicdl peculiarities would evi- 

 dently make its identity easy and positive, if the 

 deer-mouse or white-footed mouse. Hesperomys le- 

 copus, is frequently mistaken for it-which it resembles 

 only in color and markings, not in size or general 

 shape — by incompetent observers. 



So far as the writer has been able to gather infor- 

 mation, Japus hudsonius has been observed in eleven 

 counties and twelve localities. They are as follows be- 

 ginning with the northern localities and running south- 

 ward: Ashtabula Co.; Cu3^ahoga County — Berea, Joe 

 Watson; Medina County-Liverpool, Joe Watson; 

 Huron County— Norwalk; — New London, Elmer E. 

 Masterman; Portage County-Garrettsville, Geo. J. 

 Streator; Summit County — Akron, Elmer E. Master- 

 man; Mahoning County — Ellsworth, E. W. Vickars ; 

 Stark County— Alliance, L. M. Bioomfield; Tuscarawas 

 County — New Philadelphia, Dr. V. Sterki; Green 

 County, Dr. E. W. Claypole. 



NOTES ON THE LEAST SHREW BLARINA PARVA 



IN OHIO. 



BY EARNEST W, VICKERS. 



The writer exhibited a specimen of Blarina parva 

 at the meeting of the Academy at Cincinnati, which 

 was taken in Ellsworth, Mahoning Co., Ohio. The 

 specimen is now No. 30216 of the Department of Mam- 

 mals ot U. S. National Museum, — specimen taken in 

 August 1895. 



