54 Bulletin 1, Biological Society of Washington, 1918. 



Preble, Edward A. 



A new Microsorex from the vicinity of Washington, D. C. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXIII, pp. 101-102, June 24, 1910. 



Microsorex winnemana sp. n. Type from bank of Potomac River 

 near Stubblefield Falls, Va., April 25, 1903. 



Hollister, N. 



Remarks on the long-tailed shrews of the eastern United States 

 with description of a new species. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 40, pp. 377-381, April 17, 1911. 



Describes Sorex fontinalis n. sp. from Beltsville, Md. This species 

 was recorded as S. personatus, by Bailey. A District record for the 

 long-nosed shrew (S. longirostris) aiso is given. 



Nelson, E. W. 



A new bat from the eastern United States. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXVI, pp. 183-184, Aug. 8, 1913. 



Myotis winnemana sp. n. Type from Plummer's Island, Md., 

 Aug 31, 1907. A. K. Fisher. 



EARLY HISTORY OF MAN IN THE DISTRICT. 



In certain localities about the District, relics of the 

 aborigines are abundant and they throw much light on the 

 mode of life of those tribes of the North American Indians 

 that inhabited the neighborhood. These were of Algonquian 

 stock, the tribes living in this region in Captain John 

 Smith's time being the Nacochtanks, Taukenets, and Moya- 

 ones with headquarters respectively along Eastern Branch, 

 near Mount Vernon, and near the mouth of the Piscataway 

 River. The settlements of these tribes were broken up about 

 1676 by raids of the Susquesahanocs, and some of them 

 retired to Virginia, where they joined the Pamunkeys, while 

 those remaining in Maryland consolidated under the name 

 of Piscataways. These removed to Pennsylvania about 1700, 

 leaving this region in undisputed control of the white men. 



The Indians of this region spent their time in fishing, 

 trapping, hunting, and fighting. The relics of their occupa- 

 tion of the land comprise every variety of stone implement 

 common to the North American Indian, fish hooks, pottery 

 both of clay and soapstone, and traces of mats and other 

 fabrics. The richest localities for archaeologic finds are the 

 eastern shore of Eastern Branch, the Maryland shore of the 



