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ous that it was difficult to trap any other small mammals there, lu 

 the hardwood forests at low altitudes it was usually taken about moss- 

 covered logs, and in hollow stumps, in dense woods, but on higher 

 ground it was common everywhere. 



Specimens were taken on both sides of Schoharie Creek and at alti- 

 tudes ranging from 1,700 feet up to the actual summit of Hunter Moun- 

 tain. Seven were trapped around Kaaterskill Lake Sei)tember 10, 1890. 

 Si)ecimeus from these various localities and altitudes exhibited no 

 dilferences among themselves worth noting. 



Farther south, in the Hudson Highlands, only the subspecies rhoadsi^ 

 was found. It oc(!urred in sphagnous swamps overgrown with black 

 spruce and tamarack trees, in the highest part of the mountains, where 

 a single imnniture specimen was trapped September 30, 1800. This 

 individual, which 1 have compared with topotypes oi Evotomys gapperi 

 rhoaihsi, in the Department of Agriculture collection, appears to be of 

 this form. The specimen (No. 82s;32, U.S.N. M.) shows very little of the 

 red dorsal area, the back being brownish gray, as described by Mr. 

 Stone, and quite unlike any of the Catskill specimens. 



Measurements. — Average of twenty adult males: Length 142 mm.; 

 tail vertebra;, 41; tail to end of hairs, 40; hind foot, 10.;i; ear from 

 crown, 9.1; ear from notch, 13; head 28. Average of sixteen adult 

 females: Length, 144; tail vertebrre, 41; tail to end of hairs, 49; hind 

 foot, 19; ear from crown, 9.1; ear from notch, 13; head, 27.7. 



PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS (Rafinesque). 



EASTERN DEEK-MOUSE, 



This beautiful mouse was rather abundant along Schoharie Creek, 

 especially about farms and buildings. On the right side of the stream 

 it was found S])Aringly distributed around the lower third of East Kill 

 Mountain, but was nowhere abundant above the creek bottom. On 

 the leit side it was not found above 2,000 feet altitude. Forty-one 

 specimens were collected. 



Measurements. — Average of twelve adult males: Length, 174 mm.; 

 tail vertebriTp, 79; tail to end of pencil, 84; hind foot, 21.2; ear above 

 crown, 12.7; ear above notch, 1().8; head, 29.5. Average of six adult 

 females: Length, 180; tail vertebra", 81; to end of hairs, 85; hiiul 

 foot, 21.5; ear from crown, 13.3; ear from notch, 17.4; head, 30.0. 



PEROMYSCUS CANADENSIS (Mille^^ 

 CANADIAN DEER-MOUSE. 



The Canadian deer mouse, though nowhere abundant, was found 

 from the margin of Schoharie Creek up to the summit of Hunter Moun- 

 tain, and in all sorts of places — sugar camps, deserted houses, decidu 

 ous woods, spruce and balsam swamps, under rocks, among the roots 



' Described by Mr, Witiner Stone in the American Naturalist for January, 1893, 

 p. 55, from Mays Lauding, New Jersey. 



