In the autumn of 1952, I obtained a southern bog lemming, _Synaptomys cooperi_, at Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery, Dundy County, in extreme southwestern Nebraska. This locality of record is the westernmost for the species in North America. Subsequently, I reported this specimen in the literature (Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:486, 1954), provisionally assigning it to _Synaptomys cooperi gossii_, the subspecies occurring in eastern Nebraska. In late November of 1956, J. R. Alcorn collected three additional bog lemmings at the Rock Creek Hatchery. These specimens from Dundy County represent a relict population that differs in several characteristics from _S. c. gossii_, and that diff…
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