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New York : Schoharie, 2 ; Fort Montgomery, 3 ; Highland Falls, I ; Has- 

 tings, i ; South Nyack, I ; Long Island, 4 ; New York City markets and 

 Central Park Menagerie, 4, and 16 additional skulls (probably from Long 

 Island and New Jersey). 



Northern New Jersey: 6 adults and 10 young. 



Pennsylvania: Erie, i ; Markelton, Somerset Co., i. 



Ohio : Garrettsville, i skin and 4 skulls ; Wooster, 3 skulls. 



Illinois: Warsaw, i. 



Maryland : Bethesda, 2. 



Virginia: Dismal Swamp, I ; Dunn Loring, 2. 



North Carolina: Hatteras, 4 ; Magnetic City, i. 



Tennessee : Big Sandy, i ; Clarkville, i skull ; Danville, i skull ; Roan 

 Mountain, i skull. 



Arkansas : Fayetteville, 2 skulls. 



Missouri : Golden City, i ; Marble Cave, i (very young). 



Kansas : Fort Leavenworth, i ; Cedar Vale, 3. 



Indian Territory : Hartshorne, 2 adult and 6 very young ; Savanna, i ; 

 Red Oak, 2. 



Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, i. 



Texas: Vernon, i skull; Gainsville, i skull; Brazos, Palo Pinto Co., 2 ; 

 Kerrville, Kerr Co., i skull ; Mason, 4 ; San Antonio, 6 ; Washington County, 

 i ; Matagorda, i ; Deming Station, Matagorda Co., 3, and i skull ; Virginia 

 Point, Matagorda Co., 2 ; Velasco, Brazoria Co., 2. 



Total 86, and 32 additional skulls. 



Geographical Distribution. So far as known the Opossum did 

 not formerly range to the eastward of the Hudson River, 1 but of 

 late years it has spread over Long Island ^nd up the Hudson 

 Valley as far as Schoharie, and is apparently not rare locally at 

 various points in the lower Hudson Valley. It occurs also in the 

 western part of New York, and thence westward, south of the 

 Great Lakes, to Iowa, and thence southward to Texas. There 

 are specimens in the present collection from eastern Kansas, In- 

 dian Territory, Oklahoma, and the Panhandle region of Texas, 

 and as far south in the interior of Texas as Mason and San 

 Antonio, and on the coast to about Matagorda Bay. 



In the eastern United States it occurs locally, or at favorable 

 points, from the Great Lakes southward nearly to the Gulf Coast 

 and Georgia, merging in the southern part of its range into the 

 southern darker form recently described by Mr. Bangs under 

 the name D. virginiana pigra. Its range in Texas extends, in 

 the interior at least, as far as San Antonio. 



1 Cf. Miller, ' Preliminary List of New York Mammals,' in Bull. New 

 Vol. VI, No. 29, Oct. 1899, pp. 293-295. 



York State Museum, 

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