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dant along Schoharie creek, especially about farms and buildings. On 
the right side of Schoharie creek it was found sparingly distributed 
around the lower third of East Kill mountain, but was nowhere abundant 
above the creek bottom. On the left side it was not found above 2000 
feet altitude. . . . In the Highlands of the Hudson P /eucopus is 
abundant, but in the highest parts where the black spruce and tamarack 
grow, no species of /eromyscus could be found. In other words where 
fP. canadensis should have been found the genus was unrepresented” 
(98b, p. 35°). 
I have taken the northeastern white-footed mouse at Geneva, Ontario 
co.; Peterboro, Madison co. and Elizabethtown, Essex co. At Peterboro 
and Elizabethtown it occurs in association with 7. canadensts, the habi- 
tats of the two animals overlapping at the edges of forests and wood- 
lands. 
Mr Savage reports the animal common about Buffalo. 
Of the white-footed mouse on Long Island Mr Helme writes: “ This is 
an abundant species on all parts of the island. During cold weather 
several will often be found occupying one nest. I have taken as many 
as 16 at one time in a nest under a hollow log.” 
Peromyscus canadensis (Miller) Canadian white-footed mouse 
1842 Mus leucopus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p. 82 
(part). 
1858 Hesperomys myoides Baird, Mam. N. Am. p. 472 (part). ° 
1884 Hesperomys leucopus Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. ‘Trans. 
2: 165 (part). 
1893 Sitomys americanus canadensis Miller, Biolog. soc. Washington. 
IONE, AO) |felae TSe}R, 98 SI 
1896 Peromyscus canadensis Bangs, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 
19 Mar, 1896. 10:49. 
1898 Feromyscus canadensis Mearns, U.S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21: 350. 
Ly pe locality. Peterboro, Madison co., New York. 
faunal position. Canadian zone. 
Habitat. While the Canadian white-footed mouse is primarily an in- 
habitant of dense, damp forests it may be found in an almost endless 
variety of situations.’ 
Distribution in New York. The Canadian white-footed mouse occurs 
throughout the extensive Canadian forests in the northern part of the 
state and in isolated colonies further south, where elevation or dense 
damp woodland gives it essentially Canadian environment. 
