The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan: Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond)
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The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan: Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86
Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond)
Mammals -- Michigan -- Berrien County
During the period between July 29 and August 28 a total of one hundred
and seventy mouse traps set in the flood-plain forests along the
Galien River took for the first nights' trapping, twenty-two northern
white-footed mice and one house mouse. Short-tailed shrews, more
white-footed mice, pine voles, and a jumping mouse were secured on
nights after the first. Larger traps took during the whole period one
raccoon, one New York weasel, and two woodchucks. Several other
woodchucks and a number of red squirrels were seen. Ridges of moles
were numerous, but no specimens were secured. Tooth marks on an old,
partly fallen linden were probably made, perhaps a number of years
ago, by a porcupine.
Throughout the woods there are a number of small ravines. These
ravines are forested with trees mostly of the flood-plain type, and
there is evidence in many of the ravines, at least in their lower
parts, that flooding occurs in the ravine bottom during the spring.
Fifty mouse traps set August 26 in a large ravine north of the county
road took on the first day five northern white-footed mice and one
house mouse. Short-tailed shrews, more white-footed mice, and pine
voles were trapped on following days. Here also red squirrels and a
cottontail were seen, and tracks of raccoon noted. Evidently the fauna
is the same as that of the flood-plain, with which it is here included.
_Beech-maple forest habitat_:
_Blarina brevicauda talpoides._ Short-tailed shrew. 7.
_Procyon lotor lotor._ Raccoon. Tracks.
_Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis._ Northern white-footed
mouse. 86.
_Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides._ Northern pine vole. 5.
_Zapus hudsonius hudsonius._ Hudson Bay jumping mouse. 1.
_Marmota monax monax._ Southern woodchuck. Burrows.
_Tamias striatus lysteri._ Northeastern chipmunk. 1.
_Sciurus hudsonicus loquax._ Southern red squirrel. 10.
_Sciurus niger rufiventer._ Fox squirrel. 7.
_Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsii._ Mearns cottontail. 1.
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