Howell — Mammals of the Middle Mississi^ypi Valley. 25 



PLANTS OF LOWER AUSTRAL ZONE.* 



Taxodium distirhmn Ulmns alnta 



Ni/ssa aquatira. Celtls mJssissippiensis 



Querrui^ lyrata Gleditsia aquatica 



Arundinaria tectu 



LIST OF :ma:\i:mals. 



Sciurus niger rufiventer (ieoffroy. 



FOX SQUIRREL. 



Fox .squirrel.'^ are fairly common locally over the whole of the region 

 traversed. 



Records were secured of their occurrence at the followino; localities: 



Missotiri: Horseshoe Lake, St. Charles County; Marble Hill; Cushion 



Lake (4 specimens). 

 Illinois: Wolf Lake; Olive Branch ; Kansas; Cxolconda. 

 Indiana: New Harmony (1 specimen). 

 Kentncky : Hawesville; Mammoth Cave; Midway; Jackson. 



Tamias striatus (Linnaeus). 



CAROLINIAN CHIPMUNK. 



Occurs in moderate mnnhers nearly everywhere excepting in the big 

 swamps. 



They were reported to me at the following localities: 



Missouri : INTarble Hill. 



Illinois : Olive Branch ; Wolf Lake ( 1 specimen ) ; A\'oodlawn ; Olney. 



Indiana : New Harmony. 



Ke)iliiek}i : Kockport; Mammotli Cave ( L' specimens ) ; Midway; Jackson. 



Marmota monax (Linn;eus). 



WOODCHICK; (JROUND HOG. 



The woodchnck occurs in the hilly portions of tlie Mississippi Valley 

 States as far south at least as southern Illinois, southern Missouri, and 

 western Kentucky. 



Records were secured of their occurrence in the following localities : 

 Missouri : Meramec Highlands ( 1") miles soutliwest of St. Louis) ; ]Marble 



Hill. 



Illinois : Shelbyville (sjiecinicn from there seen in a St. Louis taxidermist 

 shop); Riehl Station, near A Iti in; Woodlawn; Golconda; Olive Branch. 



Indiana : New Harmony. 



Kentuclqi : Mammoth Cave ( 1 specimen); Berry Ferry; ^lidway; Jack- 

 son. 



* In this fonnootion, see paper.-* by Robort Ridgway on the native trees of the lower 

 Wahasli Valley, in Proc. U. S. N. M., V. pp. Jii-SS, 1SS2, un<l XVII, pp. tOtWUl, l.SiM. 



