TENNESSEE MAMMALS — KELLOGG 291 



Benton County: Big Sandy, 2. 



Campbell County: Highcliff, 1. 



Carter County: Watauga Valley, 2; Roau Mountain, altitude 6,300 feet, 1. 



Cocke County: Low Gap, 4% miles southeast of Cosby, altitude 2,700 feet, 2. 



Cumberland County: Crab Orchard, 1. 



Fayette County: Hickory Withe, 1. 



Hamilton County: Walden Ridge, near Soddy, 1. 



Houston County: Danville, 1. 



Humphreys County: South of .Tohnsonville, 2. 



Jolmson County: Shady Valley, altitude 2,900 feet, 1. 



Knox County: Knoxville, 1. 



Obion County: Hornbeak, 1. 



Shelby County: Arlington, 2; Eads, 1. 



Stewart County: 8 miles north of Indian Mound, 1. 



Sullivan County: Holston Mountains, head of Fishdam Creek, 1. 



SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONALIS (Bangs): New England Cottontail 



No specimens of the New England cottontail taken in the State 

 are listed by Nelson (1909, p. 199). Kegarding its possible occur- 

 rence in the Great Smoky Mountains, Bangs wrote Rhoads (1896, 

 p. 183) that he had "examined a large series last winter from Roan 

 Mountain, and they were all true sylvaticK^'' \^=^Sylvilagus floridanus 

 7nallurus\. Inasmuch as Howell (1921, p. 71) has taken this cotton- 

 tail at three localities in northeastern Alabama and has recorded its 

 occurrence at Brasstown Bald Mountain in Georgia, more intensive 

 field work should reveal its presence at localities other than those 

 listed below in the Great Smoky Mountams of eastern Tennessee. 



Cocke County: liow Gap, 4^4 miles southeast of Cosby, altitude 3,300 feet, 1. 

 Hamilton County: Walden Ridge, near Soddy, 1. 



SYLVILAGUS AQUATICUS AQUATICUS (Bachman): Swamp Rabbit 



The swamp rabbit lives in the canebrakes and deep woods along 

 the Mississippi River and is found elsewhere in the State in the 

 swamps and wet bottoms bordering the Tennessee River. Rhoads 

 (1896, pp. 181-182), after having observed this rabbit on the borders 

 of Reelf oot Lake, writes as follows : "It preferred hiding among the 

 half submerged vegetation and piles of driftwood, and when it broke 

 cover would run with bold, high leaps from log to log for so great 

 a distance that it was difficult to find it again." I have observed in 

 southeastern Kansas that this rabbit will take to water as readily as 

 a raccoon. Rhoads (1896, p. 182) lists one specimen from Samburg, 

 Obion County. Perrygo and Lingebach took a male in the cypress 

 swamp bordering Reelfoot Lake, 5 miles west of Hornbeak. On 

 Caney Island, Reelfoot Lake, tv/o were seen in a tangle of pea vines, 

 fallen logs, and cypress trees. Two were seen in another cypress 

 swamp bordering Reelfoot Lake, 2 miles east of Phillippy. All these 



