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open ground, near the very top of the mountain, I took an adult 
male Synaptomys fatuus, the only one I obtained. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Outram Bangs I have been enabled 
to compare these three specimens with examples of the species taken 
by himself at Lake Edward, Quebec. They are in every respect 
identical with his specimens, and markedly different from S. cooperi 
Baird. 
These two localities are the only ones in New England where 
Synaptomys fatuus has been found, and its known range is thus 
extended much to the southward. The region about Eagle Lake 
appears to belong to the Canadian, rather than to the Hudsonian, 
zone, and though the very summit of Mt. Moosilauke might be 
called Hudsonian, the country at its foot is Canadian in character 
and the limits of the Alleghanian zone lie not many miles away. 
Hence it seems hardly safe any longer to regard this species as 
characteristically Hudsonian. Further light upon its distribution, 
and upon that of S. cooperi, in New England, would be of great 
interest. 
Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides (And. & Bach.). Northern 
Pine Mouse. 
Although the pine mouse is known to range in general to the 
northern limit of the Carolinian fauna, and therefore might be 
expected to occur regularly in some parts of southern New England, 
there is but little definite evidence of its presence there. Mr. J. A. 
Allen in his ‘Catalogue of the Mammals of Massachusetts’ (Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, p. 234, 1869) recorded two specimens from 
Springfield, Massachusetts, and quoted Audubon and Bachman as 
“ having received it from near Boston, from Dr. Brewer.” What 
these authors really said was less explicit: “We have received 
specimens from our friend Dr. Brewer, obtained in Massachusetts.” 
They added further: “ It is found in Connecticut, is quite abundant 
on the farms in Rhode Island, and in the immediate vicinity of New- 
York” (Yivip. Quad. N. Amer. 2, p. 219). Linsley, however, did 
not refer to it in his ‘ Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut,’ and 
I can find no other mention of its occurrence in New England. It 
therefore seems worth while to record a specimen received from Mr. 
W. E. Treat, taken by him at East Hartford, Connecticut. The 
