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Campbell County: Highcliff, 1. 



Carter County: Koan Mountain Stalion, altitude 2,500 feet, 1. 



Johnson County: Holston Mou)itains, 3 miles northeast of Shady Valley, altitude 



3,000 feet, 4. 

 Knox County: Knoxville, 1. 



ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS PALUSTRIS (Harlan) : Rice Rat 



The lice rat frequents wet marshy areas in fields, wooded swamps, 

 grassy bottomlands, and occasionally the edges of cultivated fields. 

 A female trapped by A. H. Howell on September 13, 1908, near 

 Lawrenceburg contained four embryos. 



Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 156) record the finding of a 

 dead rice rat on the sill of an old barn near a marshy creek in 

 Greenbrier (altitude 2,-200 feet), Sevier County. Specimens from 

 three widely separated localities indicate that rice rats may occur 

 in suitable localities over most of the State west of the mountains 

 of eastern Tennessee. 



Campbell County: HighclilT, 1. 

 Lawrence County: Lawrenceburg, 2. 

 Shelby County: Arlington, 1. 



SIGMODON HISPIDUS HISPIDUS Say and Ord: Eastern Cotton Rat 



The cotton rat makes runways in old fields overgrown with gras^ 

 and weeds, under brush and weeds growing along borders of culti- 

 vated fields, as well as in marshes. Near Hickory Withe, Perrygo 

 trapped cotton rats in runways under a scraggly hedgerow border- 

 ing a cottonfield. Cotton rats were apparently abundant in the 

 vicinity of Pulaski during November 1937. Numerous rtmways 

 were noted in an abandoned field covered with matted grass and 

 broomsedge and likewise on a nearby dry hillside. Cotton rats 

 were taken in 1931 and 1932 by Komarek and Komarek (1938, pp. 

 156-157) in a field overgrown with broomsedge near Greenbrier 

 (altitude 1,700 feet), Sevier County. They state that these rats 

 occur also near Knoxville, Knox County. 



Hamilton County: Soddy [Rathbiirn Station]. 1. 

 Fayette County: Hickory Withe, 3. 

 Giles County: 1 mile east of Pulaski, 5. 

 Lincoln County: 6 miles east of Frankewing, 1. 



NEOTOMA FLORIDANA HAEMATOREIA Howell: Blood Mountain 



Wood Rat 



The range of this wood rat in Tennessee seems to be restricted to 

 the eastern Great Smoky Mountains. Arthur Stupka, park natu- 

 ralist, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, submitted to the 

 U. S. Biological Survey for identification two specimens taken 3 



