2o6 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



much at home in the lowlands and the door yards and side-walks of the 

 suburbs as does Scalops in the east. Its economic relations are probably 

 identical with those of Scalops. 



Description of species. — See comparisons under preceding species. This 

 species is often found curiously pied or streaked with white on the head, 

 breast, feet or tail. 



Measurements. — Total length, [47 mm. (s-if in.); tail vertebrae, 30 (ix\); 

 hind foot, 19 (J^). 



Genus Condylura IJliger, Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, 181 1, 



p. 125. 



Star Nose Mole ; Long-tailed or Swamp Mole. Condylura cristata 

 (Linnaeus). 



1758. \Sorex\ cristatus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, vol. i, p. 53. 



1819. Condylura cristata Desmarest, Journal de Physique, vol. 89, p. 230. 



Type locality. — Pennsylvania. 



Faunal distribution. — Lower Hudsonian, Canadian, transition and upper 

 austral zones ; Gulf of St. Lawrence to Manitoba ; southern New Jersey to 

 N. Carolina and Tennessee, in the mountains. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — This species is not absent from any part of 

 Pa., being found abundantly in the cool banks of mountain streams and in 

 bogs and swamps, and more sparingly in the open lowlands which are peren- 

 nially damp. In N. J. the same remarks apply and in the "barrens" of the 

 southern and eastern part they ''exist only in the sphaguum bogs and cedar 

 swamps. 



Records in Pa. — From a mass of correspondence on the distribution of the 

 mole in Pa., as well as from specimens examined, it would evidently be 

 superfluous to give them in detail. The only locality where True seems not 

 to have heard of them in Pa. is in the southwestern corner. From this 

 region I have examined one specimen, as I now remember, sent me by J. S. 

 Nease as having been taken near his home in V/ashington, Washington, Co. 

 In Southeastern Pa. it is often found in the most austral and lowland situa- 

 tions along water courses and in swamps. 



Records in N. J. — Specimens from the northern half of the state are 

 numerous in collections; from the southern half I have examined them from 

 Vincentown, Burlington Co., Haddonfield, Camden Co., and Tuckahoe, Cape 

 May Co. I am informed by Mr. T. P. Price, of Tuckerston, that the Jillson 

 boys have captured 2 or 3 near Tuckerton, Ocean Co. 



Habits, etc. — As contrasted in habits with the other moles found in Pa. and 

 N. J., this species may be designated as the most aquatic in its preferences. 



