TENNESSEE MAMMALS — KELLOGG 285 



MICROTUS CHROTORRHINUS CAROLINENSIS Komarek: Smoky 

 Mountain Rock Vole 



This vole was found by Komarek (1932, pp. 155, 158) on "the 

 wooded slopes above 3,000 feet altitude of the Great Smoky Moun- 

 tains," Sevier County, Tenn., and Swain County, N. C. Two were 

 trapped at an elevation of approximately 4,300 feet on the Dry Sluice 

 Trail near the divide (Mount Collins), Sevier County. The type 

 locality is about 5 miles north of Smokemont, on a tributary of 

 Bradley Fork, a small branch of the Oconalufty River, altitude 3,200 

 feet, Swain County, N. C. Komarek reports that these voles were 

 trapped "near rotted and moss-overgrown logs resting on rocky 

 terrain, near rhododendron thickets," in a "rather open forest having 

 a dense crown." All were caught within 50 yards of small mountain 

 streams. Subsequent field work by Komarek and Komarek (1938, 

 p. 158) revealed that this rock vole was most plentiful around mossy 

 rocks and logs in the humid forests and in rock outcrops on the 

 grassy balds. They list specimens from the following localities in 

 Sevier County : Buck Fork, Chapman Prong, and Eagle Rocks Prong 

 of Little Pigeon River, Sawtooth Mountain (on the Tennessee-North 

 Carolina boundary line, 5 or 6 miles northeast of Newfound Gap), 

 Silers Bald, and Thunderhead. 



MICROTUS OCHROGASTER (Wagner): Frame, or Buflf-belUed, 



Meadow Mouse 



A small series of these voles was trapped by Perrygo and Linge- 

 bach during April 1937 in runways in an abandoned cloverfield, 

 overgrown with broomsedge and weeds, near Reelfoot Lake. A. H. 

 Howell collected three of these mice during July 1910 near Clarks- 

 ville. 



Lake County: Reelfoot Lake, 3 miles north of Tiptonville, 8. 

 Montgomery County: Clarksville, 3. 



PITYMYS PINETORUM AURICULARIS (Bailey): Bluegrass Vole, 

 or Southern Pine Mouse 



This pine mouse shows some preference for the bluegrass barrens 

 of Kentucky and northern Tennessee, digging tunnels in the edges 

 of old fields and open grassy places. Underground burrows made 

 by these mice are found also along the borders of cultivated fields, 

 meadows, and pastures adjoining woods. Rhoads (1896, pp. 185- 

 186) trapped them near Samburg in Obion County, Raleigh in Shelby 

 County, Belleview in Davidson County, and Harriman in Roane 

 County. Near Hickory Withe, Perrygo trapped one pine mouse 



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