TENNESSEE MAMMALS — KELLOGG 273 



Grainger County: Poor Valley Ridge, Clinch Mountains, 3 miles northeast of 



Rutledge, altitude 1,200 feet, 2. 

 Hamilton County: Walden Ridge near Soddy, 3. 



Lincoln County: 3 miles south of Fayetteville, 1 ; 3 miles north of Fayetteville, 2. 

 Shelby County: Arlington, 7. 



SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS LEUCOTIS Gapper: Northern Gray Squirrel 



Although not typical, the specimens from the southern Alleghenies 

 and the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee are referred to 

 leucotis^ since they resemble those taken on the north in the moun- 

 tainous sections of eastern West Virginia in the predominance of 

 whitish-tipped or whitish-gray-tipped hairs in the tail as well as large 

 hind feet. The measurements of two males are, respectively: Total 

 length, 457, 452; tail, 220, 215; hind foot, 69, 68. For two females 

 the measurements are, respectively: Total length, 451, 454; tail 203, 

 205; hind foot, 67, 67. 



Gray squirrels appeared to be fairly numerous in eastern Tennes- 

 see during 1937, although it was reported to Perrygo that they were 

 rapidly diminishing in numbers. One gray squirrel was seen and 

 another one collected in oak and beech woods on the Holston Moun- 

 tains. Rhoads (1896, p. 196) reports that he had seen the skin of 

 one taken at an altitude of 4,000 feet on Roan Mountain. Gray 

 squirrels have been taken along Fighting Creek, at Greenbrier, on 

 Horseshoe Mountain (about 3 miles east of Mount LeConte and 11/2 

 miles north of Mount Kephart), and along the Ramsey Prong of 

 Little Pigeon River in Sevier County, and also on Russell Field, 

 Blount County (Komarek and Komarek, 1938, p. 153). Six were 

 seen and two collected in mixed hardwood and pine woods on Big 

 Frog Mountain. 



Cocke County: Snake Den Mountain, altitude 3,600 feet, 1 ; Inadu Knob, altitude 



5,000 feet, 1. 

 Johnson County: Holston Mountains, 4 miles northeast of Shady Valley, altitude 



3,800 feet, 1. 

 Polk County: Sheeds Creek, Big Frog Mountain, 12 miles west of Copperhill, 



altitude 1,600 feet, 2. 



SCIURUS NIGER NEGLECTUS (Gray): Northern Fox Squirrel 



A few fox squirrels were reported to Perrygo to occur in the 

 deciduous woods on the lower levels (altitude 1,500 to 2,000 feet) of 

 Denny Mountains near Cosby, Cocke County. These are most likely 

 referable to the northern race but can be only tentatively placed here 

 until actual specimens are available for examination. These large, 

 and generally white-bellied, long-tailed fox squirrels have been taken 

 at two localities in Greenbrier County, W. Va., and should range 

 southward in the southern Allegheny Mountains. 



