No. 402.} MAMMALS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 485 
between Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, about 
seventy miles northeast of the former. 
The meadow mouse was one of the commonest mammals 
of the island, inhabiting sand bars, salt and fresh marshes, and 
dike lands, as well as damp, bushy clearings abounding in Jun- 
cus. They were most numerous on the Cascumpeque sand bar, 
near Alberton, a long, low, sandy island grown up with Ammo- 
phila arundinacea, Achillea millefolium, and Arctostaphilos 
uva-ursi, and mostly dry, but with a few brackish ponds which 
communicated with the sea at very high tides. Here the 
ground was simply honeycombed by their runways. 
6. Fiber zibethicus. — A common species along the arms of 
the sea, which make into the island at many points, and in 
fresh ponds, etc. 
7. Lepus americanus virginianus (?).— Rabbits were reported 
as quite common on the island, but I secured only one. This 
agrees quite closely with specimens of americanus (?) from 
New Brunswick in the American Museum of Natural History, 
New York, but according to Bangs! it is probably virginianus. 
Not having seen any specimens of the hare from farther north, 
I have been unable to make a satisfactory comparison. 
The pelage of my specimen is. changing from the summer 
to the winter stage. : 
8. Sorex personatus. — A common species, occurring mostly 
in or near wooded swamps. My specimens agree with those 
from northern Canada, which are larger than those from 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as pointed out by Miller in his 
“ Mammals of Ontario," already mentioned, thus showing per- 
haps an approach to the Alaskan form S. streatori. 
The average size of twenty-eight adults is: total length, 
103; tail, 45; hind foot, 12. 
9. Sorex hoyi. — Three specimens of this shrew were all 
that I secured. They were trapped in or near swampy woods. 
According to measurements of a number of these shrews from 
other localities, my specimens are slightly smaller than the 
average oyi. The average of my specimens is : total length, 
! The Eastern Races of the American Varying Hare, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 
fon, vol. xii, pp. 77-82 
