310 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
1896 Sciuropterus volans Bangs, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 
Xs) ADIGE, Woe, 1G) 3 wos 
1898  Sciuropterus volans Mearns, Am. mus. nat. his. Bul. 9g Sep. 
SOS | NO) 3 Bilitn 
Type locality. Virginia. 
faunal position. The southern flying squirrel is a characteristic inhabi- 
tant of the austral zones and the transition zone. It barely reaches the 
lower edge of the Canadian zone in favorable localities. . 
flatitat. Woodlands, orchards, parks, buildings; wherever convenient 
shelter can be found. : 
Distribution in New York. The southern flying squirrel probably 
occurs throughout New York state except in large tracts of Canadian 
forest. The details of its overlapping in range with the Canadian flying 
squirrel remain to be worked out. 
Principal records, De Kay: “The flying squirrel is well known 
throughout state” this (’42, p 66). Merriam: “Two varieties of flying 
squirrel occur in the Adirondacks: the present form, confined mainly to 
the borders of the region, and a northern race, commonest in the 
elevated portions of the interior’’ (’84 d, p. 99). Fisher: “ Common 
[at Sing Sing]. In the daytime they remain quietly in hollow trees, bird 
houses, out buildings, hay lofts, or garrets of houses, and as dusk 
approaches come out of their hiding places and start off on foraging 
expeditions ” (96, p. 197). 
I have found the southern flying squirrel at Peterboro, Madison co., 
though it is apparently less numerous there than the Canadian species. 
I have also taken it at Geneva, Ontario county. 
Mr Savage writes: “The flying squirrel is seldom met with in the 
vicinity of Buffalo, but it is probably more common than is generally 
supposed, I took a pair December 8, 1897.” 
According to Mr Helme the flying squirrel is common on Long Island. 
Sciuropterus sabrinus macrotis Mearns Canadian flying squirrel 
1842 Fteromys volucella De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. 
p- 66 (part). 
1884 Scruropterus volucella hudsonius Merriam, Linn. soc. New 
York. Trans. 2: 108. (Not Sciurus hudsonius Gmelin). 
1896 Sciuropterus sabrinus, Bangs, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 
28 Dec. 1896. 10: 162 (part). 
1898 Sciuropterus sabrinus macrotis Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 
2G Roe 
