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Audubon and Bachman*it is absent from the alluvial lands in Carolina, f 

 Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Although recorded by the same authors 

 as existing " in tlie mountains of Georgia, and the higher portions of 

 Alat)ama," practically nothing more has been published on the range of 

 the species in those States, t The only published records from South 

 Carolina are likewise those of Audubon and Bachman, who state that 

 they "have obtained it from Aikin, and St. Matthew's parish, on the 

 Congaree River, but have never found traces of it nearer the sea than 

 seventy miles from Charleston." While in South Carolina in November, 

 1905, I learned of the presence of nuiskrats at Cleora, Edgefield County, 

 a few miles above Aikin. 



Following is a list of the localities in the Southern States where this 

 species is known to occur : 



Tennessee: High Cliff, Campbell County (common; four specimens); 



Watauga Valley (one specimen); Briceville (reported numerous). 

 Georgia: Young Harris (reported common); Hogansville (specimen in 



U. S. National Museum). 

 Alabama: Scottsboro ( reported ) ; Huntsville (reported common) ; Reform 



(scarce; one specimen). 

 Mississippi: Michigan City (numerous; several seen). 



Fiber zibethicus rivalicius Bangs. 



LOUISIANA MUSKRAT. 



This form has a very restricted rajige in the coast region of Louisiana. 

 They are abundant in the marshes bordering Lake Pontchartrain, but at 

 Covington, less than ten miles north of the lake, are unknown to the 

 people and apparently do not occur. There are no muskrats in the marshes 

 at Bon Secour, Alabama, on the east side of Mobile Bay, nor do they 

 occur at Castleberry, Alabama, fifty miles back from the coast. A speci- 

 men of this form taken at Slidell, Louisiana, is in the National Museum. 



Lepus aquaticus Bachman. 



SWAMP RAHBIT. 



The northward limits of the range of this rabbit mark the bountlary of 

 the Lower Austral Zone. Special efforts were made, therefore, to deter- 

 mine- the extent of its range. It occupies practically all of Mississippi 

 and the greater part of Alabama, pushing up the Tennessee Valley as far 

 as Scottsboro, Alabama, and reaches as far east in Tennessee as Henry- 

 ville, Lawrence County. It penetrates extreme western Georgia into 

 Stewart and Webster Counties, and a few miles east of Preston meets the 

 range of L. palustris. It is apparently absent from the immediate coast 

 region of Alabama. 



•Quad. N. Am., I, p. 123, 1849. 



f It occurs on the northern coast of North Carolina as far south at least as Hyde 

 County, whence it has been reported by Brimley (Journ.Elisha Mitchell Sci.Soc, XXI, 

 p. 12, March, 1905). 



t R. W. Smith, in a list of the birds of Kirkwood, Georgia, mentions the muskrat as 

 occurring rarely at that place (Wilson Bull., X, p. 51, 1903). 



