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average measurements of five males are as foUo^vs: Total length, 



217 (202-234) ; tail vertebrae, 91 (75-101) ; hind foot, 29.8 (28-31). 



For eight females the average measurements are: Total length, 



230.7 (210-241) ; tail vertebrae, 102.6 (95-116) ; hind foot, 30.5 



(29-32). 



Carter County: Watauga Valley, 2; Roan Mountain, altitude 4,100 feet, 1. 



Cocke County: Snake Den Mountain, altitude 4,700 feet, 1. 



Johnson County: Holston Mountains, 3 miles northeast of Shady Valley, alti- 

 tudes 3,000 to 3,800 feet, 6; Holston Mountains, 4 miles northeast of Shady 

 Vallev, altitude 3,000 feet, 2. 



Polk County: Big Frog Mountain, 12 miles west of Copperhill, altitude 2,000 



feet, 1. 

 Wayne County: Waynesboro, 8 miles north, 6. 



GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS FUSCUS Miller: West Virginia Flying Squirrel 



The trapping of a male of this gray-faced flying squirrel on Sep- 

 tember 23, 1927, in a birch forest on the north slope of Roan Moun- 

 tain, Carter County, extends the range of this race more than 200 

 miles south of Cranberry Glades, W. Va. This specimen was caught 

 in a large-size Schuyler trap nailed to the trunk of a large birch 

 tree. No additional information has been secured in regard to the 

 habits of tliis flying squirrel. 



Carter County: Roan Mountain, altitude 5,500 feet, 1. 



Family CASTORIDAE 



CASTOR CANADENSIS CAROLINENSIS Rhoads: Carolina Beaver 



When the French, Virginia, and Carolina traders first visited the 

 Indian settlements in what is now Tennessee, beavers were generally 

 distributed in the watercourses over the whole State. ^lany traders 

 were bartering for pelts long before 1700, but it is quite unlikely 

 that any marked depletion of the beaver stock took place until after 

 1760. 



Lt. Henry Timberlake, on his trip down the Holston River dur- 

 ing December 1761 from Kingsport, Sullivan County, to a large cave 

 below the present site of Three Springs Ford, Hamblen County, 

 commented on the abundance of beavers along that watercourse 

 (Williams, 1927, p. 47). The same traveler stated that beavers were 

 plentiful along the Little Tennessee near the mouth of Tellico River 

 (Williams, 1927, p. 69). 



According to the verdict brought in by a jury and signed by An- 

 drew Jackson, attorney for the State, the value of a beaver skin 

 stolen in 1780 in Davidson County was given as 30 shillings (Lewis, 

 1903, pp. 294-295). This is rather interesting, for under the act of 

 March 31, 1785, of the General Assembly of the State of Franklin, 



