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Crossvillo reported that there were relatively few wild cats in Cum- 

 berland County. The specimens from Walden Kidge are indis- 

 tinguishable from those taken in eastern West Virginia. 



Tracks were seen by Perrygo and Schaefer during September 193T 

 on Roan Mountain, and they were told that wild cats were not 

 abundant in the Great Smoky Mountains. Komarek and Komarek 

 (1938, p. 151), however, report that wild-cat tracks were frequently 

 seen in Sevier County near Mount Guyot and on Brushy Mountain, 

 Three specimens were taken by their party at Greenbrier, Sevier 

 County. Wild cats are frequently trapped in the Cherokee National 

 Forest. The Florida wild cat {Lyn-x rufus floridanus) may occur in 

 this forest. 



Hamilton County: Walden Ridge, near Soddy, 3. 



Family SCIURIDAE 



MARMOTA MONAX MONAX (Linnaeus) : Southern Woodchuck, or 



Groundhog 



During April and May 1937 Perrygo and Lingebach learned that 

 a few woodchucks were to be found in the bluffs bordering the Mis- 

 sissippi River lowlands but that they were not common in any of 

 the western counties drained by the small tributaries of the river^ 

 One was seen April 29, 1957, crossing the road northeast of Horn- 

 beak, Obion County. In 1895, Benjamin C. Miles informed Rhoads 

 (1896, p. 193) that woodchucks were very rare in Haywood County. 

 As far back as the oldest residents could recall, no woodchucks have 

 been found in Fayette and Shelby Counties. 



In middle Tennessee, two were seen during May 1937 near Waynes- 

 boro, Wayne County. Local residents near Crossville reported to 

 Perrygo in May 1937 that woodchucks were rather scarce in Cum- 

 berland County. On the western slope of the Clinch Mountains, a 

 few occur in the farming sections near the Clinch River, Grainger 

 County. According to Howell (1909, p. 60) woodchucks were re- 

 ported as being common in Anderson County on Cross Mountain and 

 in Hamilton County on Walden Ridge near Soddy. They also occur 

 on the ridge between Fayetteville, Lincoln County, and Pulaski, 

 Giles County. 



Woodchucks appear to be slightly more abundant in eastern Ten- 

 nessee. Perrygo and Lingebach found that there were a few living 

 in the hedgerows bordering farming land in Shady Valley, Johnson 

 County. Woodchucks were reported as being not at all abundant 

 in the Great Smoky Mountains. A few were seen in the rocky 

 ground between hemlock woods (altitude 2,700 feet) and an old 

 abandoned field at Low Gap, 4I/2 miles southeast of Cosby, but only 



