PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 



1896 Pittorius vison lutreocephalus Bangs, Boston soc. nat. his. Proc. 



March 1896. 27 : 4. 

 1896 Lutrcola vison Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7 : 199. 

 1898 Putorius {Luttcola) vison lutreocephalus Mearns, Am. mus. nat. 



hist. Bui. 9 Sep. 1898. 10:347. 



Type locality. Maryland. 



Faunal position. Transition zone and upper austral zone. 



Habitat. Borders of lakes, ponds and water courses. 



Distribution in New York The southeastern mink occurs throughout 

 the central and southern purt of the state except in the Catskills where 

 it is replaced by the northeastern form. The limits of distribution of both 

 subspecies are however understood in a general way only. 



Principal records. De Kay: "The mink is a well-known animal in 

 every part of the state. Its popular n ime is corrupted from mcenk 

 given to it by our early Swedish colonists" ('42, p. 38). Fisher : " Com- 

 mon along all the larger streams and ponds [in the vicinity of Sing 

 Sing]" ('96, p. 199). Mearns: " Minks have 'always' been rather com- 

 mon in this vicinity [the Hudson highlands] " ('98a, p. 347). 



Mink are tolerably common at Peterboro, Madison co., but I am 

 unable to determine the exact status of the form that occurs there. It 

 is probably not exactly typical of either subspecies. 



Mr Savage writes that : " The mink is very common in swamps and 

 along streams in Erie co. I am inclined to think that the form found 

 here is intermediate between typical vison and the subspecies lutreocephalus. 

 Recently I examined two mink in the flesh which measured respectively 

 559 mm and 582 mm in total length." 



According to Mr Helme the southeastern mink is not uncommon on 

 Long Island. 



Remarks. The forms of mink that occur in New York are much in 

 need of critical revision but material for such study is lacking. In 

 Bangs's paper on the mink ('96a) Putorius vison lutreocephalus is referred 

 to as an Atlantic coast form. Its range into the interior doubtless 

 includes the whole of the area in New York occupied by the tran- 

 sition and upper austral zones, but proof of the correctness of this 

 supposition is much to be desired. 



Putorius cicognanii (Bonaparte) Bonaparte s weasel 



1838 Mustela cicognanii Bonaparte, Charlesworth's magazine. Jan. 



1838. 2:37. 



1839 Putorius cicognanii Richardson, Zool. Beechey's Voyage of the 



Blossom, p. 10. 



