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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Type locality. Penetanguishene, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. 

 Faunal position. Transition zone and warmer, more open parts of 

 Canadian zone. 



Habitat. The habitat of the northeastern chipmunk is the same as that 

 of its southern relative. 



Distribution in New York. The northeastern chipmunk is very 

 generally distributed throughout the greater part of New York state. 

 Specimens intermediate between the two races have been taken in the 

 lower Hudson valley by Mearns (Miller '97 p. 30). 



Principal records. De Kay : " It is common over all the state " ('42, 

 p. 64). Merriam : " The chipmunk or ground squirrel is always present 

 in greater or less numbers in some parts of the Adirondacks. It is a 

 migratory animal and is exceedingly abundant some years, while during 

 others it is scarcely seen at all, the difference being dependent on the 

 quantity of the food supply" ('84d, p. 135). Mearns: " The chipmunk 

 of the Schoharie valley is distinctly of the lysteri type. It was common 

 but shy, occurring from the edge of the creek (altitude 1700 feet) up to 

 the summit of Hunter mountain (altitude 4025 feet). At Palenville, on 

 the Hudson river side of the Catskills, intermediates between the forms 

 striates and lysteri occur ; in the Hudson highlands a few individuals from 

 the highest elevations verge toward lysteri; and lower down the Hudson 

 valley only true striatus is found. No difference was detected between 

 specimens collected in spruce forests and balsam swamps on the moun- 

 tains and those from the fields and fences along Schoharie creek " ('98, 

 P- 35 2 )- 



I have found Tamias striatus lysteri abundant at Peterboro, Madison 

 co., and at Elizabethtown, Essex co. 



Arctomys monax (Linnaeus) Woodchuck 



1758 Mus monax Linnaeus, Syst. nat. ed. 10. 1 : 60. 

 1780 Arctomys monax Schreber, Saugethiere. 4: pi. 208. 

 1842 Arctomys monax De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 69. 

 1884 Arctomys monax Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 2:142. 

 1896 Arctomys monax Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7 : 196. 

 1898 Arctomys monax Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 Sep. 1898. 

 10: 338. 



1898 Arctomys monax Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 352. 

 Type locality. Maryland. 



Faunal position. The range of the woodchuck is now supposed to 

 extend from well within the upper austral zone through the Canadian zone. 



