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Mearns: “This mouse was not found on the immediate banks of 
Schoharie creek although such Canadian forms as Zamzas striatus lystert, 
Peromyscus canadensis, Sorex fumeus, and Zapus insignis were there in 
abundance. It was met with in woods close to Kaaterskill junction 
(altitude 1700 feet) and on the lower slopes of East Kill mountain, on 
the opposite (right) side of Schoharie creek at the level of about 2000 
feet. Above these points it increased in abundance until on the summit 
of Hunter mountain (altitude 4o25 feet) it became so numerous that it 
was difficult to trap any other small mammal there. In the hardwood 
forests at low altitudes it was usually taken about moss-covered logs and 
in hollow stumps in dense woods, but on higher ground it was common 
everywhere” ('98b, p. 349-50). : 
I have found the common red-backed mouse abundant at Peterboro, 
Madison co, and Elizabethtown, Essex co. 
Mr Savage has not yet taken it in the vicinity of Buffalo. 
Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Stone Mew Jersey red-backed mouse 
1893 Evotomys gappert rhoadsi Stone, American naturalist. “Jan. 1893. 
Po See 
1897 Lvotomys gapperi rhoadsi Bailey, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 
TileseTe2 
1898 Lvotomys gappert rhoadsi Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bul. . 9 Sep. 
LOGS LO! 333. 
1898 Lvotomys gapperi rhoadsi Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 
21 : 350. 
Type locality. May’s landing, New Jersey. 
Faunal position. This animal is at present known to occur in cool, 
probably boreal localities in the transition zone. 
Habitat. In New Jersey this mouse occurs in cranberry bogs near the 
coast (Stone, ’93, p. 55-56). In New York it has been found in a 
sphagnum bog overgrown with spruce and tamarack. 
Distribution in New York. At present the only known locality at 
which this animal occurs in New York is in the higher part of the Hudson 
highlands. 
Principal records. The only record of Zvotomys gapperi rhoadsi in New 
York is the following in Dr Mearns’s paper on the Mammals of the 
Catskills. ‘‘ Farther south, in the Hudson highlands, only the subspecies 
rhoadsi was found. It occurred in sphagnous swamps overgrown with 
black spruce and tamarack in the highest part of the mountains, 
where a single immature specimen was trapped September 30, 1896. 
