456 REED-WRIGHT— THE VERTEBRATES OF [October i, 



368. Fiber zibethicus (Linnaeus). Muskrat. 

 Common along water courses and in the marshes. 



369. Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides (Audubon and Bachman). 



Northern pine mouse. 



On September 18, 1898, T. L. Hankinson took a specimen in a 

 small evergreen woodland about two miles east of Ithaca. On 

 March 14, 1909, another specimen was taken by A. C. Chandler on 

 Snyder Hill. 



370. Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord). Common eastern field mouse. 

 Common. It is found to be the most abundant rodent in the 



moist lowlands. 



371. Evotomys gapperi (Vigors). Eastern red-backed mouse. 

 Common in all the higher wooded regions, in the sphagnum bogs 



near McLean and the marshy land in Michigan Hollow. 



87. Family Dipodidje. The Jumping Mice. 



372. Zapus hudsonius (Zimmerman). Northern meadow jumping 

 mouse. 



Common in the moist lowlands. It begins to hibernate in late 

 November and emerges about the middle of April. 



2i72a. Napaeozapus insignis Miller. Woodland jumping mouse. 



One specimen (5207), a female, was taken in Michigan Hollow, 

 June 14, 1909, by Messrs. A. A. Allen, F. Harper and J. S. Outsell. 



88. Family Leporid^. The Hares. 



373. Lepus americanus virginianus (Harlan). Southern varying 

 hare. 



This species has disappeared from many localities in the basin. 

 It is still fairly common in the vicinity of Connecticut Hill, in the 

 hills near Danby and Caroline and the series of hills about Dryden. 

 The summer pelage begins to show in the latter part of March. 



374. Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi (Allen). Eastern prairie cotton- 

 tail. 



Common in wooded, open, dry and marshy lands alike. All the 



