Fes., 1912. Mammats oF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN — Cory. 441 
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Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata). 
Seton records it from western Illinois:* Kennicott, from Edgar and 
Cook counties; and Wood from Champaign County. 
Wisconsin specimens have been examined from Newbold, Forest Co.; 
Medford, Taylor Co.; Merrill, Lincoln Co.; and there is a skull in 
the collection of Dr. H. V. Ogden from Mercer, Iron Co. Jackson 
records it from Stevens Point, Portage Co. (/. c., 1908, p. 32); and 
from Whitcomb, Shawano Co., and Bayfield, Bayfield Co. (J. ¢., 1910, 
Pp. 90). 
This species prefers low meadows and marshy ground, although 
it also frequents dry localities where the soil is loose, such as gardens 
and ploughed fields. It is found more commonly, however, in the 
vicinity of water and according to various authors is a good swimmer 
and quite at home in the water. Dr. C. Hart Merriam says, ‘‘In 
gardens and ploughed ground they often work so near the surface that 
a ridge of loose earth is upheaved along the course of their tunnels. 
In meadows and pasture lands, on the contrary, the galleries are not 
marked by surface ridges, for the simple reason that they cannot 
* Life Histories of Northern Animals, II. 1909, map, p. 1138. 
