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MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS (Linnaeus): House Mouse 



The house mouse, a native of Europe, appears to be abundant and 

 generally distributed throughout the State. As its name implies it 

 shows some preference for buildings, but it occurs also in the wild 

 state in abandoned and cultivated fields. Perrygo and Lingebach 

 trapped this mouse in cotton-rat runways in broomsedge and weeds 

 bordering a cottonfield on the edge of the cypress swamp near Hick- 

 ory Withe, at least half a mile from the nearest house. Near Pike- 

 ville one was caught in runways in weeds and matted grass on the 

 edge of a cloverfield. Another mouse was caught in cotton-rat run- 

 ways in an abandoned field overgrown with broomsedge 6 miles east 

 of Pulaski. At Shady Valley four were trapped in grass and weeds 

 around the edge of a wheatfield, quarter of a mile from the nearest 

 buildings. Two were trapped in moss in hemlock woods at an eleva- 

 tion of 2,700 feet at the base of the northwest slope of Low Gap, 4y2 

 miles southeast of Cosby. Three specimens taken at Greenbrier, 

 Sevier County, are listed by Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 159). 

 Rhoads (1896, p. 192) reports that he had specimens of house mice 

 from Raleigh, Shelby County, and Roan Mountain. 



Benton County: Bifr Sandy, 2. 



Bledsoe County: Pikeville, 2 miles north, 1. 



Cocke County: Low Gap, 4^/4 miles southeast of Oosby, 2. 



Fayette County: Hickory Withe, 2. 



Giles County: 6 miles east of Pulaski, 1. 



Johnson County: Shady Valley, altitude 2,900 feet, 4. 



Family ZAPODIDAE 



ZAPUS HUDSONIUS AMERICANUS (Barton): Carolinian Jumping Mouse 



This jmnping mouse has been taken in the mountains of western 

 North Carolina within the limits of Great Smoky Mountains Na- 

 tional Park. Arthur Stupka, park naturalist, lent a male found 

 hibernating November 7, 1935, by Granville Calhoun on Noland 

 Creek, altitude 2,800 feet, Swain County, N. C. The measurements 

 of this specimen are as follows: Total length, 190.5; tail, 114.3; hind 

 foot, 31.75. 



NAPAEOZAPUS INSIGNIS ROANENSIS (Preble): Roan Mountain Wood- 

 land Jumping Mouse 



The woodland jumping mouse is found most frequently in dense 

 woods with little or no underbrush, usually near streams. A. H. 

 Howell trapped two of these mice at Indian Gap. Perrygo and 

 Lingebach caught one on a rotten log in open hemlock timber with 

 dense crown on the west slope of Low Gap, 41/2 miles southeast of 



