1896.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA"DELPHIA. 175 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF TENNESSEE. 

 No. 3, MAMMALS. 



BY SAMUEL N. RHOADS. 



In the following annotated list of the mammalia of Tennessee I 

 have pursued the same plan of treatment as in the paper preceding 

 this^ on the avifouna of the same region. The list comprehends all 

 the species known to belong to the Tennessee fauna, including not 

 only the feral mammals now existing in the State but those which 

 have been exterminated since the advent of the white man. An 

 itinerary of the trip made during the months of May and June, 

 1895, when I secured the collection and field notes forming the basis 

 of this paper, will be found on pages 376 to 381 of the Proceedings 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1895, and 

 on the two following pages there is a brief resume of the zoo-geography 

 of Tennessee which may be of use to the more critical reader in this 

 connection. 



References to the mammals of Tennessee in scientific literature 

 are so rare and, so far as I am able to search, are generally of so lit- 

 tle value, that it would be useless to attempt to tabulate them in 

 this paper. In popular literature the hunting stories of David 

 Crockett form, perhaps, the most voluminous and reliable (?) source 

 of earlier information on this topic, and these have been supple- 

 mented in later times by occasional papers and notes published in 

 Forest and Stream. The historic literature of Tennessee, so far as 

 I have read it, adds but little to the information which may be 

 gleaned from literature devoted to the exploits of the aforementioned 

 Crockett.* When taken from other sources the authority will be 

 given. 



Much of whatever value may attach to this contribution to our 

 hitherto meagre knowledge of the mammals of Tennessee, especially 

 the following notes on the habits of certain species, is due to the 

 close observations and generous assistance of my friend Mr. B. C. 

 Miles, of Brownsville, Tennessee, of whose labors in the ornithology 

 of the same region I have already spoken in a previous paper. 



iProc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1895, pp. 463-501. 



^ With the exception of references to the buffalo, nearly all of which date 

 from Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee. 



