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few days. Other lodges were known to ray guide, and Mr. H. B. 

 Young of Samburg, who makes it his business to take some of these 

 animals in the lake every winter, declared there were twenty of 

 them left, and contracted with me to furnish the gardens of the Zoo- 

 logical Society of Philadelphia with some of their young ones the 

 coming winter, 



Mr. Miles says, " the beaver, in limited numbers, has been here 

 always and is more numerous now than 40 years ago, because less 

 hunted. Within 9 miles of Brownsville, I know personally of 

 a ' house ' now inhabited, and it has been so for 25 years. I 

 know the locality of two others by report." 



It is not likely that any beavers now exist in the eastern half of 

 the State, though their former distribution over the whole of Ten- 

 nessee is well known, and attested by the frequency of the name for 

 smaller streams and meadows throughout the state. 



Family SCIURID^. 

 Genus AKCTOMYS Schreber. 



21. Arctomys monax (L.). Woodchuck. Ground Hog. 



Stated by Mr. Miles to be " very rare " in Haywood Co. A bur- 

 row, apparently used by one of these animals, was located on the 

 banks of Indian Creek just above the overflow of Reelfoot Lake. 

 From the character of the signs and paths leading from this den to . 

 an adjacent field, it could have belonged to no other animal. I did 

 not find the woodchuck as numerous anywhere in Tennessee as we 

 have it in eastern Pennsylvania. It is found high up among the 

 Great Smoky Mountains, but does not, so far as I could learn, in- 

 vade the fir belt, which occupies their summits down to an altitude 

 of about 5,000 feet. Dr. Merriam says* of them in this region that 

 they " were common in places in the Alleghenian belt, about half- 

 way up the mountains." 



Genus TAMIAS Illiger. 



22. Tamias striatus (L.). Eastern Chipmunk. 



This Ground Squirrel was very abundant on that part of Roan 

 Mountain lying between the station and the foot of the fir belt. A 

 few casually invade this belt, but never to a great distance. In the 

 lowlands of Tennessee, the chipmunk was very sparingly and ir- 

 regularly distributed, so far as my personal observations were made, 



»Amer. Jour. Sci., 1888, p. 459. 



