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Remarks. De Kay's account of Scalops aquaticus clearly refers in 

 part to the hairy-tailed mole since he records one specimen with 44 teeth. 



Parascalops breweri (Bachman) Hairy-tailed mole 

 1842 Scalops aquaticus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, 

 p. 15 fpart). 



1844 Scalops breweri Bachman, Boston journ. nat. hist. 4 : 32. 



1855 Scalops breweri Baird, N. Y. State cab. nat. hist. 15th rep. 



Append. A. p. 1. 

 1884 Scapanus americanus Merriam, Linn. sec. New York. Trans. 



2 : 63. 



1895 Parascalops breweri True, Science, N. S. 25 Jan. 1895. 1 : 101. 

 1898 Parascalops breweri Mearn?, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 Sep. 

 1898. 10:343. 



1898 Parascalops breweri Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 357. 



Type locality. The type specimen of Scalops breweri was supposed to 

 have been taken on the island of Marthas vineyard, Massachusetts (see 

 Bachman, '44) but this is doubtless an error. 



Faunal position. Boreal zone and perhaps northern part of transition 

 zone. 



Distribution in New York. The range of the hairy-tailed mole in New 

 York is not well understood at present. The animal is probably common 

 in open country throughout the northern half of the state. It also occurs 

 in the Catskills and in the Hudson highlands. In his Revision of the 

 American moles Mr F. W. True says : "All the New York specimens 

 examined were from Lewis and Oneida counties, in the northwestern 

 part of the state, but Bachman had 4 specimens from Troy, Rensselaer 

 co. [Audubon and Bachman '51, p. 175]. No specimens have been 

 taken in any part of southern or southeastern New York so far as I am 

 aware" ('96, p. 73). 



Principal records. De Kay: (A specimen of Scalops aquaticus with 44 

 teeth is mentioned ('42/ p. 15-16), but no locality stated). Baird : "This 

 species of mole, although not mentioned by De Kay in the State natural 

 history, is in reality very abundantly to be met with in the northern part 

 of the state and apparently to the exclusion of the more southern species 

 with white naked tail, S. aquaticus ('65, p. 1). Merriam: "I have 

 secured a number of examples of this species from the borders of the 

 wilderness, but have not observed it within the coniferous forests " 

 ("84d, p. 63). Mearns: "This mole, is probably rare in the [Hudson] 

 highlands though common in the Catskill mountains. I have examined 



