28 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



FERAE. FISSIPEDIA. 



PROCYONIDAE. 



Ursus lotor Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 48. "in 



AmEEICAE MARITIMFS." 



Procyon lotor (Linne). Elliot, Field Columb. miis., zool. ser.,. 

 1901, vol. 2, p. 317, fig. 62. 



Procyon lotor (Linne). Stone & Cram, Amer. animals, 1902,. 

 p. 247-254, 1 pi. 



Deciduous and mixed woods ; in hollow trees. 

 Me. to Conn. 



URSIDAE. 



71. Ursus ameeicanus Pallas. 

 Black bear. 



Ursus americanus Pallas, Spicilegia zoologica, 1780, fasc. 14, 

 p. 5. '•' Americam." 



Vrsus americanus Pallas. Elliot, Field Columb. mus., zool. 

 ser., 1901, vol. 2, p. 313-314, pi. 34. 



Ursus americanus Pallas. Audubon & Bachman, Quadrupeds 

 of North Amer., 1854, vol. 3, p. 187-197, pis. 141, 127. 



Dense and secluded forests of northern New England. 



Me. 



N. H. — White Mountains, northward. 



Vt. — Northern counties. 



Mass. — Practically extirpated. Worthington (1885); Savoy 



(1885) ; North Adams (1885) ; Agawaum (1886). 

 Conn. — Extii'pated (Linsley). 



INSECTIVORA. INSECTIVORA VERA. 



SORICIDAE. 



72. Sorex personatus I. Geoffroy. 



Common long-tailed shrew; Masked shrew. 



