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skins were readily procured, opossum skins that had little or no value 

 were even more plentiful. The collectors obtained the requisite num- 

 ber of opossum skins, cut the tails off the raccoon skins and sewed 

 them to the opossum skins, and then deposited them in the general 

 treasury. The raccoon skins were sold by the collectors to the hatters. 



During the spring of 1937 it vras reported that opossums were not 

 so abundant as formerly in Shelby and Fayette Counties. One that 

 had been run over by an automobile was seen on April 13, 1937, on 

 the road near Memphis. On April 23, 1937, in Obion County, one was- 

 seen crushed on the road near Hornbeak, and the following day on 

 the road between Troy and Keelfoot Lake three crushed opossums 

 were noted. Rhoads (1896, p. 176) did not collect opossums in Ten- 

 nessee, but he was told by B. C. Miles that the Negroes of Haywood 

 and Lauderdale Counties claimed there were two kinds, one with 

 black and the other with white feet. 



On May 11, 1937, another crushed opossum was seen on the road 11 

 miles north of Waynesboro, Wayne County. On November 8, 1937, 

 a feraaJe opossum was taken near Frankewing in a Schuyler trap 

 set for flying squirrels. Fourteen embryos, the largest of which have 

 a liead and body length of 60 mm, were removed by Russell J. 

 Thompson from the pouch of a female collected on June 23, 1892, at 

 Big Sandy. The measurements of the largest male (U.S.N.M. no. 

 46895, Danville) in this series of 11 Tennessee specimens are as fol- 

 lows: Total length, 785; tail, 320; hind foot, 52. 



Specimens taken at Greenbrier, Sevier County, are listed by Koma- 

 rek and Komarek (1938, p. 145). 



Benton County: Big Sandy, 1. 



Carter County: Carvers Gap, Roan Mountain, altitude 3,700 feet, 1. 



Grainger County: Tliorn Hill, Clinch Mountains, altitude 1,800 feet, 2. 



Houston County: Danville, 1. 



Humphreys County: South of Johnsonville, 1. 



Lincoln County: 6 miles east Frankewing, 1. 



Montgomery County: Clarksville, 3. 



Sumner County: Rockland [Hendersonville P. 0.1, 1. 



Family TALPIDAE 



PARASCALOPS BREWERI (Bachman): Hairy-tailed Mole 



Hairy-tailed moles were reported to be common in cultivated fields 

 in the vicinity of Shady Valley. A female was trapped by W. M. 

 Perrygo and Carleton Lingebach on June 13, 1937, in a cornfield near 

 a bog. Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 145) report that hairy- 

 tailed moles were trapped in damp rhododendron thickets in Sevier 

 County along Chapman Prong (altitude 3,200 feet) and Buck Fork 

 of Little Pigeon River. 



Johnson County: Shady Valley, altitude 2,900 feet, 1. 



