PROCEEDINGS 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



Vol. IV October 1912-MAY 191 3 Parts III and IV 



A Star-Nosed Mole from South Lakewood, New Jersey^ 



William T. Davis 



The writer is indebted to Mr. Alanson Skinner for a star-nosed 

 mole, Condylura cristafa Linn., which he found near South Lake- 

 wood, New Jersey, July 28, 1912. 



In The Mammals of New Jersey (1907) Mr. Witmer Stone has 

 this to say of the species : " This mole is more aquatic than the 

 naked-tailed species, and frequents meadows and the immediate 

 vicinity of streams. Floods do not seem to trouble it in the least, 

 and it no doubt frequently takes to the water of its own accord, 

 as it has been seen swimming by careful observers. 



" This mole is very abundant in the northern half of the State, 

 but does not, so far as I am aware, occur in the pine barrens. In 

 southwestern New Jersey and along the coast strip to the east it 

 occurs rarely." 



The region about Whitesville and South Lakewood should not 

 be considered as true pine barrens, although included under that 

 head in the maps showing the life zones and floral belts of New 

 Jersey. The scrub pine, Pinus virginiana Mill., a tree so far as I 

 am aware absent in the true pine barrens, occurs there, and now 



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