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miles above Townsend, on Little Kiver, Blount County. These 

 specimens were caught, respectively, at 1,200 and 1,400 feet altitude. 

 The type specimen was collected by Dr. Francis Harper near the 

 summit of Blood Mountain, altitude 4,400 feet, Lumpkin County, 

 Ga. A. H. Howell in 1931 trapped an immature individual of this 

 race at Highlands, Macon County, N. C, about 40 miles south- 

 southeast of the Tennessee line. 



NEOTOMA FLORIDANA ILLINOENSIS Howell: Illinois Wood Rat 



This wood rat may inhabit the bluffs and swamp bottomlands 

 bordering the Mississippi River. Ehoads (1896, p. 192) received 

 information from hunters that some form of wood rat occurred in 

 southwestern Tennessee. 



NEOTOMA PENNSYLVANICA Stone: Allegheny Wood Rat 



The recorded occurrences of this wood rat are all east of the north- 

 ward-flowing portion of the Tennessee River, but no specimens, so 

 far as known, have been taken in eastern Tennessee. Rhoads (1896, 

 p. 192) states "that this large mountain-dwelling rat \Neotom.(i 

 magister] is found in the cliffs of Roan Mountain and other peaks 

 of the Southern Alleghenies," although he cites no definite Tennessee 

 records. Howell (1909, p. 62) reported that there were numerous 

 signs of wood rats in the rocky bluffs on Walden Ridge, and he found 

 signs also in the bluffs along a creek near Lawrenceburg. 



Hamilton County: Walden Ridge, near Soddy (3 miles southwest of Rathburn), 



10. 

 Humphreys County: Duck River, 2 miles southwest of Waverly, 2. 

 Lawrence County: Lawrenceburg, 1. 

 Montgomery County: Clarksville, 1. 



SYNAPTOMYS COOPERI STONEI Rhoads: Stone's Mouse Lemming 



This mouse occurs in sphagnum bogs, bluegrass pastures, old 

 abandoned fields, and hillsides. Rhoads (1896, p. 183) trapped "a 

 lately nursing female and five young * * * in a small springy 

 place on the Carolina side of the summit of Roan Mountain." 

 Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 157) stated that these lemming mice 

 were taken in grassy patches on the mountains of Sevier County at 

 the following localities: Buck Fork and Roaring Fork of Little 

 Pigeon River, Greenbrier, Little River (altitude 2,900 feet), and 

 Silers Bald. It was found also on the grassy bald known as Spence 

 Field (altitude 5,000 feet), about 1 mile west of Thunderhead 

 Mountain, Blount County. 



Hawkins County: Rogersville, 1. 

 Sevier County: Indian Gap, 1. 



