Vol. XXII, pp. 55-68 April 17, 1909 



PROCEEDINGS 



i')?' 'THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN MAM- 

 MALS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. 



BY ARTHUR H. HOWELL. 



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In mapping the distribution of mammals in the southeastern 

 States, particularly Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, the Bio- 

 logical Survey has been handicapped by the lack of information 

 on the ranges of many of the species. Parts of peninsular 

 Florida and the coast region of Georgia have been examined and 

 a full list of the mammals published by Outram Bangs. * Portions 

 of Tennessee have been studied by Samuel N. Rhoads, who has 

 published an important contribution to the mammalogy of that 

 State. t Considerable work has been done in North Carolina by 

 Dr. C. Hart Merriam, the Brimley brothers, H. C. Oberholser, 

 and others, and several brief local lists from the State have 

 appeared.! Louisiana has been fairly well covered by the field 

 parties of the Biological Survey, though most of the records are 

 as yet unpublished. Collections have been made by the Survey 

 in the coast region of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South 

 Carolina, but the interior of these four States is almost a blank, 

 so far as our knowledge of the mammals is concerned. 



With the purpose of extending our knowledge of the fauna of 

 this region and to determine the boundaries of the life zones, a 

 survey of j)arts of the southeastern States was carried on by the 

 Biological Survey during the summer and fall of 1908. Between 

 July 2 and November 24 I visited six States and made collections 



• Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXVHI, pp. 157-235, 1898. 



+ Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896, pp. 175-205. 



t See C. S. Brimley, " A Descriptive Catalogue of the Mammals of North Carolina, 

 Exclusive of the Cetacea " < .Journ. Elislia Mitchell Sci. Soc, XXI, pp. 1-32, 1905; H. C. 

 Oberholser, " Notes on the Mauuiials aiul Summer Birds of Westei'n North Carolina." 

 1905 (published by the Biltmore Forest School) . 



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