PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 279 
TYPE LOCALITIES IN NEW YORK 
Thirty one descriptions of supposed new mammals have been based on 
specimens from New York state. Of these 20 are now regarded as 
applying to previously named species, but the proper arrangement of the 
untenable names in synonymy so largely depends on an exact knowledge 
of specimens taken at the original locality (‘topotypes’), that the matter 
assumes a special importance from the point of view of systematic zoology. 
The names based on New York specimens with the localities at which 
the latter were taken are as follows’: 
Elaphus americanus De Kay (’42, p. 120) Near mouth of Raquette 
river. 
Elephas americanus De Kay (’42, p. 101) Ten miles east of 
Rochester. 
Sciuropjerus sabrinus macrotis Mearns (’98 b, p. 353) Hunter 
mountain (Catskills). 
Mus americanus De Kay (42, p. 81) Rockland co. 
Mus agrarius americanus Kerr (’92, p. 23t) New York state. 
Mus sylvaticus noveboracensis Fischer (’29, p. 318) New York 
state. 
Sitomys americanus canadensis Miller (’93 b, p. 55) Peterboro, 
Madison co. 
Lemmus noveboracensis Rafinesque (’22, p. 3) Southern New York. 
Arvicola rufescens De Kay (’42,p. 85) Low grounds near Oneida 
lake. 
Arvicola oneida De Kay (’42, p. 88) Oneida lake. 
Arvicola scalopsoides Audubon and Bachman (41, p.97) Long 
Island. 
Arvicola fulvus Audubon and Bachman (’41, p. 295) St Lawrence 
co. 
Microtus 4nsutaris Bailey ('98, p. 36) Great Gull Island. 
Lynx montanus Rafinesque ('17, p. 46) Catskill mountains. 
Felis ruffa Gueldenstaedt (’76, p. 484) Central New York. 
Mustela pusilla De Kay (42, p. 34) New York state. 
Mustela fusca Bachman (41, p. 94) Suffolk co. 
Futorius agilis Audubon and Bachman (’54, p. 184) Rockland co. 
Putorius noveboracensis Emmons (’40, p. 45) New York state. 
Phoca concolor De Kay (’42, p. 53) New York harbor. 
Otisorex platyrhinus De Kay (’42, p.22) ‘Tappan, Rockland co 
Sorex dekayi Bachman (’37 b, p. 377) Queens co, 
1 Names now regarded as tenable printed in HEAVY TYPE 
