Fes., 1912. MammMats or ILLINOIS AND WIsconstn — Cory. 155 
bed with care, and became torpid. Some six weeks having passed 
without its appearing, or having received any food, I had it taken out 
of the box, and brought into the parlour: it was inanimate and as round 
as a ball, its nose being buried as it were in the lower part of its abdomen, 
and covered by its tail; it was rolled over the carpet many times; but 
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Marmota monax (LiNN.). Type locality — Maryland. Description as previously 
given. 
Marmota m. canadensis (ERXLEBEN). Type locality —Hudson Bay. Smaller than 
monax and general coloration decidedly more reddish brown; brownish black 
of crown extending below the eye. 
Marmota m. ignavus (BANGS). (Proc. New Engl. Zodl. Club, I, 1899, p. 13.) Type 
locality — Black Bay, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador. Size about like canadensis 
but general color darker and skull shorter and broader. 
