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taken during this season. A series of 6 specimens taken in northern Quebec were from a dry, 

 partly wooded habitat. Specimens of three pregnant females in the Royal Ontario Museum taken 

 in June had 4. 4, and 7 embryos. 



Preble, E. A. 1899. Description of a new lemming mouse from the White Mountains, New 

 Hampshire, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13:43-45. 



• Description of the subspecies SYNAPTOMYS BOREALIS SPHAGNICOLA based on one 

 specimen trapped at Fabyans (1600') near the base of Mt. Washington on 29 June 1898. Habitat 

 "is swampy and quite densely carpeted with moss..." Associated species included MICROTUS, 

 PEROMYSCUS, BLARINA, CLETHRIONOMYS. ZAPUS HUDSONICUS, and NAPOZAPUS 

 INSIGNUS. 



Preble, E. A. 1902. A biological investigation of the Hudson Bay Region. N. Amer. Fauna 22. 140 

 pp. 



• For SYNAPTOMYS BULLATUS (=BOREALIS): Only trapped 2 specimens, one near Norway 

 House. The other was a female with 6 embryos in a swamp bordering the Echimamish River on 

 June 25. 



Preble, E. A. 1902. Descriptions of new species of SYNAPTOMYS and PHENACOMYS from 

 MacKenzie, Canada. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15:181-182. 



• Description of new species SYNAPTOMYS BULLATUS (=S. BOREALIS) from Great Slave 

 Lake, Canada from a skin and skull of adult male. 



Preble, E. A. 1908. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region. N. Amer. 

 Fauna 27. 574 pp. 



• For SYNAPTOMYS BOREALIS: took 8 near site (Ft. Franklin) of those originally described by 

 Richardson (1829) and quotes extensively from that paper. Caught one female with 4 embryos. 

 Habitat at various sites where lemmings were captured include: 1) border of a small meadow; 2) 

 wet swamp; 3) near small muskeg ponds; and 4) marsh. Says Loring found SYNAPTOMYS 

 rather common in October in a sphagnum swamp and caught about a dozen. Gives measurements 

 and descriptions and merges S. DALLI with S. BOREALIS as S.B. DALLI. 



Prince, L. A. 1942. SYNAPTOMYS BOREALIS from Fort Severn, Hudson Bay, Ontario . J. 

 Mammal 23:216. 



• An mimature male SYNAPTOMYS BOREALIS was trapped at Ft. Severn on 1 1 July 1940 . Was 

 taken in a "water trap" on alder and willow bordered bank of a stream draining a black spruce bog. 

 Gives measurements of the single specimen. 



Rand, A. L. 1945. Investigations on the Canal Road, Yukon and Northwest Territories, 1944., 

 Natl. Mus. Can. Bull. 99„ 



• For SYNAPTOMYS BOREALIS: 7 taken m 400 trap-nights in open, wet moss, sedge, willow 

 and spruce swamp on Lapie River. Also taken were MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS. At 

 Mount Sheldon 12 were taken in marshy sedge fringing ponds in a dwarf birch flat 11-15 Aug. On 

 22-25 Aug 7 were taken in a wet grassy glade on the Macmillan River. In all cases the species was 



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