PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 351 
1896 Putorius vison lutreocephalus Bangs, Boston soc. nat. his. Proc. 
March 1896. 27:4. 
1896 Lutreola vison Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7: 199. 
1898 FPutorius (Lutreola) vison lutreocephalus Mearns, Am. mus. nat. 
hist. Bul. g Sep. 1898. 10: 347. 
Lype locality. Maryland. 
faunal position. Transition zone and upper austral zone. 
ffabitat. Borders of lakes, ponds and water courses. * 
Distribution in New York. The southeastern mink occurs throughout 
the central and southern part of the state except in the Catskills where 
it is replaced by the northeastern form. ‘The limits of distribution of both 
subspecies are however understood in a general way only. 
Principal records. De Kay: “The mink is a well-known animal in 
every part of the state. Its popular name is corrupted from menk 
given to it by our early Swedish colonists” (42, p. 38). Fisher: “ Com- 
mon along all the larger streams and ponds [in the vicinity of Sing 
Sing]’? (96, p. 199). Mearns: ‘“‘ Minks have ‘always’ been rather com- 
mon in this vicinity [the Hudson highlands]” (98a, p. 347). 
Mink are tolerably common at Peterboro, Madison co., but I am 
unable to determine the exact status of the form that occurs there. It 
is probably not exactly typical of either subspecies. 
Mr Savage writes that: ‘“The mink is very common in swamps and 
along streams in Erie co. I am inclined to think that the form found 
here is intermediate between typical vzson and the subspecies lutreocephalus. 
Recently I examined two mink in the flesh which measured respectively 
559 mm and 582 mm in total length.” 
According to Mr Helme the southeastern mink is not uncommon on 
Long Island. 
Remarks. The forms of mink that occur in New York are much in 
need of critical revision but material for such study is lacking. In 
Bangs’s paper on the mink (’96a) Pudorius vison lutreocephalus is referred 
to as an Atlantic coast form. Its range into the interior doubtless 
includes the whole of the area in New York occupied by the tran- 
sition and upper austral zones, but proof of the correctness of this 
supposition is much to be desired. 
Putorius cicognanii (Bonaparte) Aonaparte’s weasel 
1838 Mustela cicognanii Bonaparte, Charlesworth’s magazine. Jan. 
Sig kok Wied ety fc 
1839 Putorius cicognanii Richardson, Zool. Beechey’s Voyage of the 
Blossom. pp. 10. 
