TENNESSEE MAMMALS KELLOGG 265 



Local residents reported to Perry go that gray foxes are occasion- 

 ally caught in Fayette and Shelby Counties. He was told that 

 gray foxes were still plentiful in the vicinity of Waynesboro, Wayne 

 County. Similarly, trappers residing near Crossville informed him 

 that this fox was no longer caught very often in Cumberland County. 



In eastern Tennessee, Rhoads (1896, p. 200) states that the gray 

 fox "sometimes courses over the balsam belt of Roan Mountain, 

 when pursued by dogs, but does not reside at so great an altitude." 

 Arthur Stupka, park naturalist, has informed me that specimens 

 from Cades Cove, Blount County, and Elkmont, Sevier County, have 

 been acquired by the museum of the Great Smoky Mountains Na- 

 tional Park and that he has sight records from Gatlinburg, Sevier 

 County, and elsewhere in the park. His observations indicate that 

 the gray fox outnumbers the red fox at elevations below 2,000 feet. 



Benton County: Big Sandy, 1. 



Hamilton County: Walden Ridge, near Soddy, 2. 



CANIS LUPUS LYCAON Schreber: Gray Wolf 



Wolves, although once numerous, were exterminated in many sec- 

 tions of Temiessee many years ago. Unfortunately there are few 

 published records. 



The first recorded mention of wolves in eastern Tennessee appears 

 to be that of James Needham (Williams, 1928, p. 27), who in 1673 

 saw wolves while traveling from near the present site of Trade, John- 

 son County, to the Cherokee Indian town Chota in what is now 

 Monroe County. Wliile engaged in carrying out a peace treaty with 

 the Cherokee Indians, Lt. Henry Timberlake wrote in his journal 

 (Williams, 1927, p. 71) under date of January 2, 1762, near the 

 mouth of Tellico River, Monroe County, that there were an incredible 

 number of wolves. Dr. C. Hart Merriam (1888, p. 459) wrote, after 

 his trip through the region in 1887, that wolves were present in the 

 Smoky Mountains. Rhoads (1896, p. 200) states that a wolf was 

 seen during the winter, about 1883, near the Cloudland hotel on 

 Roan Mountain and that a few may persist in the southern Alle- 

 ghenies. Early settlers in the vicinity of Shady Valley, Joluison 

 County, resorted to the use of high pen traps baited with live sheep 

 to rid the country of wolves. Perrygo was shown the location of 

 some of these trapping sites in the Holston Mountains. These pens 

 were constructed of logs and built so that one side abutted against 

 some abrupt cut in a gradual hill slope. A pack of wolves, having 

 scented the bait, generally came down the slope and jumped into 

 the pen, from which they could not escape. The trapped wolves were 

 then killed with a gun or club. 



