64 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



canadensis, next considered. In New Jersey numerous everywhere north of 

 a line joining Lambertville and Perth Amboy ; thence rapidly decreasing in 

 numbers especially eastward in the pine barrens region, where they are almost 

 unknown. In the vicinity of Trenton and Princeton they are rare, and in 

 Camden Co. of fortuitous occurrence. Thence southward their presence is 

 occasionally recorded in most isolated neighborhoods, seeming to set at 

 naught the common rules of geographical and faunal distribution. The same 

 peculiarity is noticeable in regions where they are generally abundant, certain 

 parts of which, exactly similar in character of soil, topography, climate and 

 flora, have been avoided by them apparently ever since the country was 

 settled upon by white men. 



Records in Fa. (Peculiar distribution.) — Bucks Co. — Never seen around 

 Fallsington. — James Moon and Geo. M. Comfort. Never known in southern 

 part of Bucks Co. — D. Ray. 



Montgomery Co. — Supposedly common in eastern Pa., its distribution in 

 Bucks and Montgomery Cos. is remarkable. The following is taken from the 

 History of Montgomery Co., 1884, W. J. Buck, pp. 435, 436 : "After most 

 extensive inquiry among the descendants of our earliest families, the ground 

 hog seems never to have been known in Horsham, Moreland, Abington, 

 Cheltenham or Upper Dublin townships. Near Flourtown, Springfield twp., 

 one was discovered about 1868 and regarded as a great curiosity. In Lower 

 Salford they disappeared a quarter of a century ago. A few are still found in 

 Upper Hanover and Upper and Lower Providence, but strange to say they 

 are common around Red Hill and Eastburn's Hill in Upper Merion. 



Records in N. J. (chiefly extralimital.) — Atlantic Co. — Two were reported 

 captured near Egg Harbor and there exhibited about 1880. — Rhoads. 



Burlington Co.— "Very rare near Medford. About the year 1874 one was 

 killed on the south branch of Rancocas Creek near my farm." — Geo. Haines. 

 Joseph S. Evans in answer to a letter to William B. Evans of Moorestown 

 writes : "I remember in the summer of 1898 we cought one in a rail pile and 

 I think I remember hearing of one being caught in Edw. Darnell's potato 

 patch last summer [1901] near Mount Laurel, Father says he only remem- 

 bers seeing 3 or 4 in his lifetime [near Marlton]." 



Camden Co. — One was killed near Haddonfield, April, 1890, in a burrow 

 along the road to Chew's Landing. It was mounted for, and is now in the 

 possession of John Hutchison. This is the only record known to me for 

 Camden Co. during a residence there of nearly forty years. — Rhoads, 1901. 

 An adult specimen was taken alive in July, I902, on a farm near Ashland and 

 seen by me in Haddonfield. — Rhoads. 



Cape May Co. — " A few are found at the head of Cedar Swamp Creek, 

 Upper township." — Hand, 1901. 



Cumberland Co. — Saw one near Greenwich about 50 years ago. The only 

 one. — Williams, 1902. 



