Howell — Notes on the Distribution of Certain Mammals. ^ 59 

 Sciurus niger texianus Bachman.* 



SOUTHERN FOX SQUIRREL. 



Fox squirrels are becoming scarce in many parts of tlie South, and 

 specimens are often difficult to obtain. A small series from the Cumber- 

 land Plateau in East Tennessee is referable to this form, though inter- 

 mediate between texianus and neglectus. Of the five specimens examined, 

 all but one have white noses. The color of the back is somewhat darker 

 than in typical neglectus from Maryland, and the underparts are pale 

 rufous instead of white. There is less black on the head than in typical 

 texianus. A specimen from extreme northern Mississippi (Michigan City) 

 also is referable to texianus, though probably grading toward rufiventer. 

 This subspecies is thus seen to have an extensive range in the Southern 

 States, from the lower ^Mississippi Valley northeastward to the Cumberland 

 Mountains. 



Specimens have been examined as follows : 



Tennessee : High Clitt", Campbell County, 5. 

 Mississippi : Michigan City, 1. 

 Alabama: Castleberry, 1. 



Tamias striatus (Linnseus). 



CAROLINIAN CHIPMUNK. 

 The range of the chipmunk in the Southern States includes practically 

 all of Tennessee, western North Carolina, northern and western Georgia, 

 and most of Alabama and Mississippi. Loomis records the species as 

 abundant at Mount Pinnacle, Pickens County, South Carolina,! and 

 Audubon and Bachman state that it occurs rarely at Columbia, S. C, but 

 is not found nearer the seaboard than that point. + The same authors 

 speak of it as occurring throughout Louisiana, and (on page 69) mention 

 capturing a specimen in that State, but no other records of its occurrence 

 there have been found. It is apparently absent from the coast region of 

 Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. § 



Although reported by the residents to be numerous at many localities 

 in the States visited, particularly in the mountainous portions, very few 

 of the animals were actually met with. Records have been secured of 

 their occurrence at the following localities : 



Kentucky: Clover Fork, Harlan County (common; specimen taken). 

 Tennessee : High Clift", Campbell County (reported); Coal Creek, Ander- 

 son County (one seen); Walden Ridge, near Soddy, Hamilton County 

 ( reported ) . 

 Georgia: Young Harris (common; three sjiecimens); Rich Mountain, 

 near Ellijay (one seen at 4,000 feet); Grassy Mountain, near Jasjier 

 (several seen) ; Atlanta (one seen in the city park) ; Preston (one seen, 

 November 22). 



• Defined by Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, pp. 4G-47, 1907. ' 



+ Auk, VII. p. 33, 1890. 



iQiiad. N. Am., I, p. 73, 1(M9. 



$Dr. C. Hart Merriam has recorded (Am. Nat., XX, p. 238, 1886) a specimen from 

 Charleston, S. C. This specimen can not now be found, and it seems likely that there 

 is some error connected with the record. 



