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Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides (Audubon and Bachman) 
Northern pine mouse 
1841 Arvicola scalopsoides Audubon and Bachman, Acad. nat. sci, Phila- 
delphia: Proc. 1; 97. 
1851 Arvicola pinetorum Audubon and Bachman, Ouadr INS Au, 
Be Di) 
1885 Arvicola pinetorum Merriam, American naturalist. 19 : 895. 
1896 Microtus pinetorum Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7: 198. 
1896 Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides Batchelder, Boston soc. nat. hist. 
Proc Oct @SqOs 217 uor. 
Type locality. Long Island. 
Faunal position, Upper austral zone, and irregularly parts of transi- 
tion zone. 
Habitat. V.ight dry soil in woods, thickets and fields. 
Distribution in New York. The pine mouse is abundant on Long 
Island and in the lower Hudson valley. Beyond this general region I 
know of but two positive records of its occurrence, at Locust Grove, 
Lewis co. and at Peterboro, Madison co. 
Principal records. Audubon and Bachman: “ This species, of which 
we have obtained many specimens from Long Island, and which is not 
rare in the vicinity of New York, is very distinct from Wilson’s meadow 
mouse” (41, p.97). Merriam: ‘‘On the 13th of June, 1884 at my 
home in Lewis county, New York, I caught a female pine mouse (A7wicola 
pinetorum Le Conte). It was taken in a trap baited with beechnuts and 
set for the red-backed wood mouse (Hvofomys rutilus gapperi) at the 
roots of a maple in the border of a hardwood forest” (’85, p. 895). 
Fisher, “ Until the present year [1885] we have never detected the pine 
mouse (Azvicola pinetorum) in this locality [Sing Sing]” (85, p. 896). 
“ Tolerably common [at Sing Sing]. Its favorite resorts are the dry 
grassy hillsides more or less grown up with small bushes and briers, and 
old orchards containing weeds, matted grass, and young saplings” 
(96, p. 198). 
I have taken two specimens of the pine mouse at Peterboro, Madison 
co. One of these was caught September 15, 1892 in a cyclone trap 
set without bait in a labyrinth of short-tailed shrews’ tunnels in the edge 
of a grove of hard wood. The other, taken September 1, 1893, was se- 
cured with a cyclone trap set in a woodchuck’s burrow beneath the 
roots of a large elm in a low, damp wood lot. I have never seen the 
characteristic, mole-like tunnels of the pine mouse at Peterboro where 
