MILLER: MAMMALS OF ONTARIO. 
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While the short-tailed shrew of Ontario like that of the eastern 
United States is slightly different from true Blarina bremcauda, the 
type of which came from Nebraska, it is not sufficiently so to require 
recognition as a distinct subspecies. 1 
CoNDYLURA CRISTATA Lilin. 
Moles are said to occur at North Bay, but I saw none. At Nepi- 
gon a star-nosed mole was brought me which had been killed in a 
field at the Hudson Bay Company’s post. The hills and ridges made 
by this animal were very numerous in the damp ground between the 
railroad and the lake at Peninsula Harbor. I secured no fresh 
specimens here, but took the remains of one from the stomach of a 
rough-legged hawk killed early in October. 
“Tolerably common at Mount Forest. Once observed about six 
miles north of Milton in a cedar swamp ” (Brooks). 
Not mentioned by Gapper. 
The specimen from Nepigon measures: total length, 200; tail 
vertebrae, 80 ; hind foot, 28. It is an adult male. 
Vespertilio subulatus Sav. 2 
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At North Bay I shot five of these bats as they flew along the 
roadways through the woods at dusk. One evening I saw several 
feeding among the tops of some tall birches to the twigs of which 
they would cling for an instant while picking off their prey. 
I have a specimen taken by Mr. Brooks at Mount Forest. Mr. 
Brooks reports the species common at both Mount Forest and 
Milton. 
Vespertilio lucifugus Le Conte. 
Mr. Charles Bullard who accompanied me to North Bay caught a 
specimen of this bat on the platform of the railroad station at 
Gravenhurst on the evening of August 16. Many others were seen. 
On August 111 shot one at North Bay in the woods near Mr. Bes- 
serer’s clearing. 
1 See Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 12. 
2 For the two species of Vespertilio known to occur in Ontario I adopt provisionally 
the names used by Dr. II. Allen in his first Monograph of North American hats (1864). 
The names of the other hats are those used by Dr. Alien in his second Monograph (1803). 
