MAMMALS OF MARYLAND 



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Little Crossings, headwaters of North Branch of Castleman Kiver 

 (Browning, 1928, p. 24Q) ; Wolf Swamp, SE of Grantsville (Mansueti, 

 1953, p. 72). 



Rem<irks. — Several hundred snowshoe rabbits have been stocked at 

 various times in several localities in western Maryland. None of these 

 introductions appear to have been very successful, although the speci- 

 men taken by John Smith at Deep Creek Lake in March 1957 seems 

 to be one of those stocked in 1952. 



Order RODENTIA (gnawing mammals) 



Family SCIURIDAE (squirrels) 



EASTERN CHIPMUNK 



Tamias striatus (Linnaeus) 



[Sciurus] striatus Linnaeus, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1 : 64, 1758. 



The eastern chipmunk is distributed from Quebec, New Brunswick, 

 and Nova Scotia, south into Georgia and Louisiana, west to eastern 

 Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Saskatch- 

 ewan. In Maryland, two subspecies are recognizable. They are — 



Tamias striatus fisheri A. H. Howell 



To/mias striatus fisheri A. H. Howell, J. Mammal., 6(1) : 51, 9 Febru- 

 ary 1925. 



Tj/pe locality. — Merritts Corners, 4 miles E of Ossining (Sing Sing), West- 

 chester County, N.Y. 



Tliis type locality has been the source of some confusion in the literature. 

 It has been listed by various authorities as "Merritt's Corners, four miles W of 

 Sing Sing [= Ossining] New York," (Howell, 1925, p. 51) ; "Merritts Corners, 

 4 miles E of Ossining (Sing Sing), N.Y.," (Howell, 1929, p. 16); "Merritts 

 Corners, 4 miles W of Sing Sing (Ossining), Westchester County, N.Y.," (Poole 

 and Schantz, 1942, p. 560) ; "Merritts Corners, 4 miles E of Ossining (Sing Sing), 

 Westchester County, N.Y." (Miller and Kellogg, 1955, p. 218) : "Merritts Corners, 

 4 miles W Ossining (Sing Sing), W^estchester County, N.Y.," (Hall and Kelson, 

 1959, p. 294). 



The confusion involves whether Merritts Corners, a small New York State 

 village not found on current maps of the region, actually lies west or east of 

 Ossining, N.Y., and hence west of the Hudson River in Rockland County or east 

 of the Hudson in Westchester County. 



The locality as listed on the original label of the type specimen (U.S.N.M. 

 Cat. No. 193370, collected on 23 August 1884, by A. K. Fisher) reads: "Sing 

 Sing, N.Y." and on the back is written "Merritts Comers 4 miles E of Sing Sing." 

 U.S. Geological Survey maps of the region (;L893 edition, reprinted 1897) reveal 

 that Merritts Corners, the type locality of T. s. fisheri, is located east of the 

 Hudson River, in Westchester County, N.Y., at 41°11'27" N lat., and 73°47'51" 

 W long., and is approximately 3% miles E and 1% miles N of Ossining, N.Y. 



General distribution. — Middle Atlantic States, from the lower Hudson River 

 Valley in New York, south to Virginia and West Virginia. 



