NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



1896 Sciuropterus volans Bangs, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 



28 Dec. 1896. 10 : 164. 

 1898 Sciuropterus volans Mearns, Am. mus. nat. his. Bui. 9 Sep. 



1898. 10 : 341. 



Type locality. Virginia. 



Faunal position. The southern flying squirrel is a characteristic inhabi- 

 tant of the austral zones and the transition zone. It barely reaches the 

 lower edge of the Canadian zone in favorable localities. 



Habitat. Woodlands, orchards, parks, buildings; wherever convenient 

 shelter can be found. 



Distribution in New York. The southern flying squirrel probably 

 occurs throughout New York state except in large tracts of Canadian 

 forest. The details of its overlapping in range with the Canadian flying 

 squirrel remain to be worked out. 



Principal records, De Kay: " The flying squirrel is well known 

 throughout state" this ('42, p 66). Merriam : "Two varieties of flying 

 squirrel occur in the Adirondacks : the present form, confined mainly to 

 the borders of the region, and a northern race, commonest in the 

 elevated portions of the interior" ('84 d, p. 99). Fisher: "Common 

 [at Sing Sing]. In the daytime they remain quietly in hollow trees, bird 

 houses, out buildings, hay lofts, or garrets of houses, and as dusk 

 approaches come out of their hiding places and start off on foraging 

 expeditions" ('96, p. 197). 



I have found the southern flying squirrel at Peterboro, Madison co., 

 though it is apparently less numerous there than the Canadian species. 

 I have also taken it at Geneva, Ontario county. 



Mr Savage writes : " The flying squirrel is seldom met with in the 

 vicinity of Buffalo, but it is probably more common than is generally 

 supposed. I took a pair December 8, 1897." 



According to Mr Helme the flying squirrel is common on Long Island. 



Sciuropterus sabrinus macrotis Mearns Canadian flying squirrel 



1842 Pteromys xolucella De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, 

 p. 66 (part). 



1884 Sciuropterus volucella hudsonius Merriam,, Linn. soc. New 

 York. Trans. 2:108. (Not Sciurus hudsonius Gmelin). 



1896 Sciuropterus sabrinus, Bangs, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 

 28 Dec. 1896. 10 : 162 (part). 



1898 Sciuropterus sabrinus macrotis Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 



2i:353- 



