PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 279 



TYPE LOCALITIES IN NEW YORK 



Thirty one descriptions of supposed new mammals have been based on 

 specimens from New York state. Of these 20 are now regarded as 

 applying to previously named species, but the proper arrangement of the 

 untenable names in synonymy so largely depends on an exact knowledge 

 of specimens taken at the otiginal locality ('topotypes'), that the matter 

 assumes a special importance from the point of view of systematic zoology. 



The names based on New York specimens with the localities at which 

 the latter were taken are as follows 1 : 



Elaphus americanus De Kay ('42, p. 120) Near mouth of Raquette 



river. 

 Elephas americanus De Kay ('42, p. 101) Ten miles east of 



Rochester. 

 Sciuropierus sabrinus macrotis Mearns ('98 b, p. 353) Hunter 



mountain (Catskills). 

 Mus americanus De Kay ('42, p. 81) Rockland co. 

 Mus agrarius americanus Kerr ('92, p. 231) New York state. 

 Mus sylvaticus noveboracensis Fischer ('29, p. 318) New York 



state. 

 Sitomys americanus canadensis Miller ('93 b, p. 55) Peterboro, 



Madison co. 

 Lejnmus noveboracensis Rafinesque ('22, p. 3) Southern New York. 

 Arvicola rufescens De Kay ('42, p. 85) Low grounds near Oneida 



lake. 

 Arvicola oneida De Kay ('42, p. 88) Oneida lake. 

 Arvicola scalopsoides Audubon and Bachman ('41, p. 97) Long 



Island. 

 Arvicola fulvus Audubon and Bachman ('41, p. 295) St Lawrence 



co. 

 Microtus insularis Bailey ('98, p. 86) Great Gull Island. 

 Lynx montanus Rafinesque ('17, p. 46) Catskill mountains. 

 Felis ruffa Guddenstaedt ('76, p. 484) Central New York. 

 Mustela pusilla De Kay ('42, p. 34) New York state. 

 Mustela fusca Bachman ('41, p. 94) Suffolk co. 

 Putorius agilis Audubon and Bachman ( ? 54, p. 184) Rockland co. 

 Putorius noveboracensis Emmons ('40, p. 45) New York state. 

 Phoca concolor De Kay ('42, p. 53) New York harbor. 

 Otisorex platyrhinus De Kay ('42, p. 22) Tappan, Rockland co 

 Sorex dekayi Bachman ('37 b, p. 377) Queens co. 



1 Names now regarded as tenable printed in heavy type 



