Vermont Botanical and Bird Club \1^J 



Mahaffy of Proctor, Mr. W. E. Balch of Lunenburg and others for 

 assistance in collecting specimens. 



Cabinet skins or heads of the following are in the state museum 

 or the private collections of Mr. Kent and the writer with the ex- 

 ception of one or two cases where the writer has examined hunters' 

 skins: 



Odocoileus virginianus borealis (Miller) G. M. Allen. Northern Vir- 

 ginia deer. Common in every county, even in agricultural districts. 

 The deer were nearly exterminated a half century ago and the animals 

 now found are largely the result of the liberation of two herds near 

 Rutland about 1878. 



Paralces americanus (Clinton) Allen. Moose. This animal on 

 rare occasions strays into Vermont. There is an official report in the 

 office of the state game commissioner of the killing of one in Wenlock, 

 Essex county, in 1900 and deer hunters have reported sighting two or 

 three others since that time in the northeast corner of the state. 



Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Gapper) Allen. Northern gray 

 squirrel. Abundant in hardwood forests throughout the state. Rare 

 above 2,000 feet elevation. 



Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bangs. Southern red squirrel. All the 

 red squirrels collected in Vermont prove to be of this form. Former 

 reports have credited the state with S. h. gymnicus, in addition to the 

 southern form, but collections from Lunenburg in northern Essex coun- 

 ty and from the Canadian zone on the higher slopes of Mount Killington 

 are identical with red squirrels from the southern parts of the state 

 and the Champlain valley. 



Tamias striatus lysteri (Richardson) Merriam. Lyster's chip- 

 munk. Common throughout the state and ranging to the summits of 

 the highest mountains. Most abundant in deciduous forests. 



Marmota monax rufescens Howell. Rufescent woodchuck. In his 

 monograph of the marmots (North American Fauna, No. 37, U. S. Dept. 

 Agriculture). Mr. A. H. Howell cites Marmota monax preblorum 

 Howell from Rutland but all of a series of skins and skulls from points 

 between Wallingford and Lunenburg, sent him later, are placed under 

 the form rufescens. This includes a specimen taken in the Canadian 

 zone at East Wallingford. 



Marmota monax canadensis (Erxleben). Canadian woodchuck. Mr. 

 Howell places a skin without skull from Mount Mansfield under this 

 species provisionally. 



