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13. Evotomys gapperi (Vigors). Capper's Red-backed Vole. — One 
specimen of this species was taken in a cedar and sphagnum swamp 
north of North Fish-tail Bay. This is apparently the first record for the 
southern peninsula. 
Museum Number. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Tail. 
Foot. 
41379 
Adult femnle. 
144 
42 
19 
14. Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus). Canadian Porcupine. — Numer- 
ous records of porcupines were obtained, but no living specimens were 
taken. Wherever abandoned lumber camps were found, it was not un- 
usual to find where porcupines had gnawed the boards, presumably for 
the salt found in them. Two dead animals were seen, one near Burt 
Lake and one north of Douglas Lake. 
15. Lepus americanus Erxleben. Varying Hare. — This species seemed 
very plentiful in and around the swamps. Those caught were nearly 
always eaten (probably by foxes) out of the traps during the nights on 
which they were taken. Several were seen and signs were plentiful. 
Trappers asserted that a disease breaks out among the hares and kills 
great numbers of them every few years. 
Ifi. Lynx ruff us (Gueldenstaedt) . Red Lynx. — The wild-cat, now 
quite uncommon in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, may still be found 
in some of the denser swamps and thickets of Cheboygan County. A 
man working in a small mill on Burt Lake stated that he saw two wild- 
cats in the swamp between Burt and Douglas Lakes during the summer 
of 1910. 
IT. TJ racy on cincrco-argcntcus (Schreber). Gray Fox. — Gray foxes 
are still found in the region of Douglas Lake, though they are far less 
plentiful than the red fox. Hahn* states that, at the present time, the 
gray foxes, in Indiana, have burrows similar to those of the red foxes, 
though they may have lived in hollow logs and old tree trunks in former 
times. The writer has been able to observe the habits of foxes for sev- 
eral years in Michigan and has never known of a gray fox when hunted 
to take refuge in a burrow. Almost invariably they ‘‘hole” in a hollow 
log, or, when hard pressed, in a log pile or under an upturned root. 
18. Vulpes fulva (Desmarest). Red Fox. — Red foxes are very plenti- 
ful in Cheboygan County. A mile or two away from human habitations, 
they may be seen almost any evening on the shores of the lakes, where 
they come to feed on fish and mussels. White-footed mice and the vary- 
ing hares probably furnish a large part of the natural food for the foxes 
of the region, as they are the only animals upon which they might feed 
which are found in considerable numbers. 
19. Mephitis put i da Boitard. Eastern Skunk. — This form was found 
to be quite plentiful. Farmers in the neighboring region report that 
skunks are at the present time somewhat troublesome to the poultry 
yards. Many tracks were found and also places where they had been 
digging around the roots of stumps, probably in search of grubs and in- 
sect larvae. 
*3 3rd Ann. Kept. Dept. Gecl. and Nat. Res., Ind. (1908), p. 550. 
