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as narrated by Mr. Lengerke above, escaped from the Rutherford preserve. 

 Rhoads, 1902. 



Historical notes, etc. Dr. Abbott in Geology of N. J., 1868, says in general 

 .of the beaver of North N. J. : "Probably no longer found in the state, but 

 may possibly exist in very limited numbers about the northern boundary line." 

 This supposition, so far as it related to native or unprotected stock was prob- 

 ably unwarranted at that date. Rhoads. "To the beaver-hat trade with 

 Portugal and the West Indies, N. Jersey contributed a noteworthy share ; 

 but as the years of colonial existence drew to a close the making of beaver 

 hats dwindled into comparative insignificance. Every effort was made to 

 revive the beaver hat industry, but to no avail, and the commerce in this 

 article [beaver pelts] virtually died out in pre- revolutionary times." Lee. 



Description of species. See preceding species. 



Family MURIM:, Mice and Rats. 



Genus Peromyscus Gloger, Gemeinn. Hand. u. Hilfsbuch d. Naturge- 

 schischte, vol. i, p. 95. 



Miller's Deer Mouse. Peromyscus canadensis (Miller). 



1893. Sitomys americanus canadensis Miller, Proceedings Biological So- 

 ciety, Washington, vol. 8, p. 55. 



1896. Peromyscus canadensis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc., Washn., vol. 10, 



P- 49- 



Type locality. Peterboro, Madison Co., N. York. 



Faunal distribution. Canadian and upper transition zones of eastern 

 Canada and the United States. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. Not yet found in N. J., but may be dis- 

 covered on High Knob, Sussex Co., or in the isolated mountain cedar 

 swamps west of Greenwood Lake, near Passaic Co. In Pa. confined to the 

 denser hemlock, tamarack and white pine forests of the Canadian fauna, in- 

 tergrading southward along the higher Allegheny ridges of Cambria and 

 Somerset Cos. into the small, longtailed race (?) found originally on Roan 

 Mountain in the southern Alleghanies. See next species. 



Records in Pa. This large, forest- haunting species has been taken in its 

 most typical form in the following localities : Clinton Co., High Mts. above 

 Round Island, 2 ; Sullivan Co., Eaglesmere, 5 ; Lake Ganoga, 4. 



Habits, etc. Among the deep, damp, moss-covered tangle of the ever- 

 green forests, especially where the mountain stream is darkly hid by rhodo- 

 dendron, Miller's deer mouse loves to dwell. He is by no means the hermit 

 that a rambler in these solitudes might imagine, as he spies him peering out 



