308 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Type locality. Penetanguishene, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. 
faunal position. ‘Transition zone and warmer, more open parts of 
Canadian zone. 
ffabitat. The habitat of the northeastern chipmunk is the same as that 
of its southern relative. 
Distribution in New York. -The northeastern chipmunk is very 
generally distributed throughout the greater part of New York state. 
Specimens intermediate between the two races have been taken in the 
lower Hudson valley by Mearns (Miller ’97 p. 39). 
Principal records. De Kay: “It is common over all the state” (42, 
p. 64). Merriam: “The chipmunk or ground squirrel is always present 
in greater or less numbers in some parts of the Adirondacks. It is a 
migratory animal and is exceedingly abundant some years, while during 
others it is scarcely seen at all, the difference being dependent on the 
quantity of the food supply” (84d, p. 135). Mearas: ‘“‘ The chipmunk 
of the Schoharie valley is distinctly of the /ystevi type. It was common 
but shy, occurring from the edge of the creek (altitude 1700 feet) up to 
the summit of Hunter mountain (altitude 4025 feet). At Palenville, on 
the Hudson river side of the Catskills, intermediates between the forms 
striatus and lysteri occur ; in the Hudson highlands a few individuals from 
the highest elevations verge toward /ys¢evz, and lower down the Hudson 
valley only true s¢va¢us is found. No difference was detected between 
specimens collected in spruce forests and balsam swamps on the moun- 
tains and those from the fields and fences along Schoharie creek” (’98, 
P- 352). 
I have found Zamias striatus lysteri abundant at Peterboro, Madison 
co., and at Elizabethtown, Essex co. 
Arctomys monax (Linnaeus) Woodchuck 
1758 Mus monax Linnaeus, Syst. nat. ed. 10. 1:60. 
1780 Arctomys monax Schreber, Saugethiere. 4: pl. 208 
1842 Arctomys monax De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p. 69. 
1884 Arctomys monax Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 2: 142. 
1896 Arctomys monax Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7: 196. 
1898 Arciomys monax Mearns, Am. mus, nat. hist. Bul. g Sep. 1898. 
10: 338. 
1898 Arctomys monax Mearns, U.S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 352. 
Type locality. Maryland. 
faunal position. The range of the woodchuck is now supposed to 
extend from well within the upper austral zone through the Canadian zone. 
