PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK Bahu 
1893 Zapus imsignis Miller, Biolog. soc. Washington. ~-Proc. 
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1898 Zapus insignis Mearns, U.S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21: 348. 
Type locality. Restigouche river, New Brunswick. 
faunal position. ‘The woodland jumping-mouse is an inhabitant of 
the Canadian zone, reaching the transition zone in ‘ boreal islands’ only. 
flatitat, Forests and woodlands, specially in the neighborhood of 
running water. 
Distribution in New York. The woodland jumping-mouse probably 
occurs throughout the Adirondack wilderness and in isolated colonies in 
other parts of the state wherever the fauna has a distinctly Canadian 
tinge. At present however it has been recorded from the following 
localities only: Keene, Essex co. (Miller, ’93a, p. 1), Elizabethtown, 
Essex co. (Miller, ’93a, p. 1), Peterboro, Madison co. (Miller, ’93a, p. 1) 
and the Catskills (Mearns ’98, p. 348). There is a specimen in the U. 
S. National museum taken at Glenville, Schenectady co. by P. M. Van 
Epps. Settlement of the county has probably restricted the range of 
Napaeozapus to nearly the extent that it has increased that of true 
Zapus. 
Erethizon dorsatus (Linnaeus) Canada porcupine 
1758 HHystrix dorsatus Linnaeus, Syst. nat. ed. 10. 1: 56. 
1822 Lrethizon dorsatus F. Cuvier, Mem. du mus. d’hist. nat. Paris. 
9: 432. ; 
1842 fHystrix hudsonius De Kay, Zoology of New York. Mammalia. 
P: 77- 
1884 Erethizon dorsatus Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 2: 202. 
1898. Erethizon dorsatus Mearns, U.S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21: 346. 
Type locality. astern Canada. 
faunal position. Boreal and transition zones. 
ffubitat. Heavy forests. 
Distribution in New York. The porcupine is common throughout 
the Adirondacks and in the Catskills. In other parts of the state it prob 
ably occurs wherever there are sufficiently extensive tracts of unbroken 
forest. 
frincipal records. De Kay: “In this state more particularly in the 
northern and western counties they are quite numerous” (42, p. 79). 
Merriam : ‘‘'The porcupine is a common and well known resident of all 
the wooded parts of the Adirondacks” (’84, p. 202). Mearns: “This 
