TENNESSEE MAMMALS KELLOGG 271 



in a hardwood forest 8 miles northeast of Waynesboro, Wayne 

 County. Tas'o were seen near Dover, Stewart County, October 30, 1937. 

 According to Rhoads, observations (1896, p. 193), chipmunks were 

 "very sparingly and irregularly distributed in the lowlands of Ten- 

 nessee." He observed them near the springs at Raleigh and along 

 the road from Raleigh to Bartlett, Shelby County. Benjamin C. 

 Miles informed Rhoads that he saw five or six chipmunks every 

 summer near Brownsville, Haywood County. Chipmunks were not 

 found to be very numerous in the sections of Obion and Lake Coun- 

 ties visited in 1937. 



Hicknian County: 1. 



Johnson County: Holston Mountains, 4 miles northeast of Shady Valley, 



altitude 3.800 feet, 1. 

 Montgomery County: east of Clarksville, 1; Dunbai's Cave, Clarksville, 4. 

 Obion County: Reelfoot Lake, Samburg, 1. 

 Stewart County: Cumberland River near Dover, 1. 

 "Wayne County: 8 miles northeast of Waynesboro, 2. 



TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONIUS ABIETICOLA Howell: Cloudland Red 

 Squirrel, Pine Squirrel, or Boomer 



No red squirrels were seen by the Museum party outside of the 

 hemlock, spruce, and fir forests of eastern Tennessee, except in the 

 pine woods of the Cherokee National Forest. One was seen during 

 June 1937 at an altitude of 2,900 feet in a hemlock bog near Shady 

 Valley. Rhoads (1896, p. 196) reports that "owing to the severe 

 winter of 1894—95, the 'Boomer' was very scarce in its usual haunts 

 on the summit of Roan Mountain." Red squirrels were rather scarce 

 in 1937 in the balsam-fir and beech forests on Roan Mountain, Carter 

 County, but Perrygo and Schaefer succeeded in collecting a 

 few specimens. In the Great Smoky Mountains district it 

 required considerable effort on the j)art of Perrygo, Lingebach, 

 and Schaefer to collect even a few red squirrels in the balsam-fir 

 forests on Mount Guyot, Old Black Mountain, and Inadu 

 Knob. They were nowhere numerous, and local residents were of 

 the opinion that red squirrels would be exterminated within a few 

 3^ears. Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 152), how^ever, report that 

 red squirrels were abundant in 1931 and 1932 in the deciduous and 

 evergreen forests of the Great Smoky Mountains and list specimens 

 from the following localities in Sevier County: Buck Fork and 

 Ramsey Prong of Little Pigeon River, Dry Sluice [Gap] (intersec- 

 tion of Richland Mountain with Tennessee-North Carolina boundary 

 line), Greenbrier, Horseshoe Mountain, Mount Guyot, and Porters 

 Flats. One was seen during July 1937 in pine woods at an altitude 

 of 4,100 feet on Big Frog Mountain, Polk County. 



