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beivickii. Among reptiles may be mentioned the Pine-tree Lizard, 



Sceloporus undulatus ; Nebulous Toad, Engy stoma corolinense ; Pilot 



Snake, Coluber obsoletiis, and Box Tortoise, Terrapene Carolina. 

 Many of these are found in the Louisianian fauna, but attain their 



maximum development and numbers in the Carolinian. 



Elevations between 3,000 and 5,000 feet in the Cumberland 

 Plateau and the Unaka and Great Smoky Mountain systems of East 

 Tennessee, are in the Alleghenian fauna. Some of the representa- 

 tive animals of this area are the Red Squirrel, Seiurus hudsonius ; 

 Mole Shrew, Blarina talpoides ; Brown Shrew, Sorex personatus ; 

 Canadian Warbler, Sylvania canadensis; Least Fly- catcher, Emp/i- 

 donax minimus ; Wilson's Thrush, Turdus fuscescens ; Dusky Sala- 

 mander, Amblystoma jejfersonianum ; Black Salamander, Desmog- 

 nathus nigra, and northern Spring Frog, Rana clamitans melanota. 



On the highest mountain tops, in the evergreen timber belt, above 

 5,000 feet elevation, are found a few animals whose position belongs 

 more strictly to the Canadian than the Alleghenian fauna. These 



are the Mountain Deer Mouse, Peromyscus 1 Great Red-backed 



Vole, Evotomys carolinensis; Bog Vole, Synaptomys t ; Winter 



Wren, Troglodytes hiemalis ; Golden- crowned Kinglet, Regulus 

 satrapa, and Common Crossbill, Loxia c. minor. A few of the Alle- 

 ghenian reptiles extend into the Canadian fauna to the very summit 

 of Roan Mountain. 



The following annotated list of the reptiles and amphibians of Ten- 

 nessee includes only those species collected by me during the recent 

 trip. 



To this is added a list of twenty-five species, not observed by me, 

 of which there exist authentic records as having been observed or 

 taken in the State. I have also appended a l*et of twenty-nine spe- 

 cies of which we have no Tennessee record, but which are likely 

 to be found there. 



There is no area of similar extent in the eastern United States, 

 whose zoology is so little known as that of Tennessee. State geo- 

 logical surveys, with the exception of those of Gerard Troost, pub- 

 lished between the years 1835 and 1838, have made no attempt to 

 treat of the fauna and flora of Tennessee, nor can we find in zoolog- 

 ical literature anything which can be said to have reference to 

 the State in a faunal sense. I have been aided in making out the 

 list of additional recorded species of reptiles and amphibians by 



