PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 



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Mearns : "This mouse was not found on the immediate banks of 

 Schoharie creek although such Canadian forms as Tamias striatus lysteri, 

 Peromyscus canadensis, Sorex fumeus, and Zap us insignis were there in 

 abundance. It was met with in woods close to Kaaterskill junction 

 (altitude 1700 feet) and on the lower slopes of East Kill mountain, on 

 the opposite (right) side of Schoharie creek at the level of about 2000 

 feet. Above these points it increased in abundance until on the summit 

 of Hunter mountain (altitude 4025 feet) it became so numerous that it 

 was difficult to trap any other small mammal there. In the hardwood 

 forests at low altitudes it was usually taken about moss-covered logs and 

 in hollow stumps in dense woods, but on higher ground it was common 

 everywhere" ('98b, p. 349-50). 



I have found the common red-backed mouse abundant at Peterboro, 

 Madison co. and Elizabethtov\n, Essex co. 



Mr Savage has not yet taken it in the vicinity of Buffalo. 



Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Stone New Jersey red-backed mouse 

 1893 Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Stone, American naturalist. Jan. 1893. 

 P- 55- 



1897 Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Bailey, Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 



11 :i25. 



1898 Evotomys gappe? i rhoadsi Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 Sep, 



1898. 10:333. 



1898 Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi Mearn?, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 

 21 : 350. 



Type locality. May's landing, New Jersey. 



Faunal position. This animal is at present known to occur in cool, 

 probably boreal localities in the transition zone. 



Habitat In New Jersey this mouse occurs in cranberry bogs near the 

 coast (Stone, '93, p. 55-56). In New York it has been found in a 

 sphagnum bog overgrown with spruce and tamarack. 



Distribution in New York. At present the only known locality at 

 which this animal occurs in New York is in the higher part of the Hudson 

 highlands. 



Principal records. The only record of Evotomys gapperi rhoadsi in New 

 York is the following in Dr Mearns's paper on the Mammals of the 

 Catskills. " Farther south, in the Hudson highlands, only the subspecies 

 rhoadsi was found. It occurred in sphagnous swamps overgrown with 

 black spruce and tamarack in the highest part of the mountains, 

 where a single immature specimen was trapped September 30, 1896. 



