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the value of a "good, clean beaver skin" was fixed at 6 shillings 

 (Ramsey, 1853, p. 297). The same Assembly fixed the salary of each 

 county clerk at 300 beaver skins, the clerk of the House of Commons 

 at 200 beaver skins, and members of the Assembly at 3 beaver skins, 

 . beginning January 1, 1788 (Williams, 1924, p. 215). 



According to an entry in the journal of Andre Michaux (Williams, 

 1928, p. 335) under date of June 21, 1795, beavers were present in the 

 vicinity of Nashville. Williams (1930, p. 96) states that in 1819 

 beavers were still present in western Tennessee, without giving any 

 definite localities. 



Rhoads (1896, pp. 192-193) examined a beaver house in the cypress 

 swamp bordering Reelfoot Lake, about 3 miles west of Samburg, 

 Obion County, and was told by his guide, H. B. Young, that there 

 were 20 beavers in that district. B. C. Miles informed Rhoads that 

 he knew of an inhabited beaver house within 9 miles of Brownsville, 

 Haywood County. 



Under the pen name "Will" (1884, p. 106), a resident of Savannah, 

 Hardin Count}', wrote on February 11, 1884, as follows: "A few 

 foxes and otters, several beavers, and multitudes of raccoons have 

 been trapped here this winter. There are parties who make good 

 wages trapping, as minks and 'coons are very abundant." 



Family CRICETIDAE 



REITHRODONTOMYS HUMULIS HUMULTS (Audubon and Bachraan): 



Eastern Harvest Mouse 



Although this harvest mouse is known at present from only one 

 locality in the south-central part of the State, it is quite likely that 

 it ranges over most of middle Tennessee, It seems to prefer old fields 

 and tangled brier patches bordering cultivated fields, especially areas 

 where there is an abundance of matted grass, broomsedge, or weeds. 

 One was trapped at Giles in a cotton-rat runway in a pasture over- 

 grown with broomsedge. 



Six specimens are recorded by Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 

 154) as having been taken in Sevier County in broomsedge areas 

 around apple trees; another specimen was trapped in a similar field 

 along Laurel Branch in Greenbrier. 



Giles County: 6 miles east of Pulaski, 1. 



PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS BAIRDII (Hoy and Kennicott): Prairie 



White-footed Mouse 



The discovery by Perrygo and Lingebach of this short-tailed white- 

 footed mouse in Fayette County has extended its range in the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley at least 250 miles south of previously known Illinois 

 records. Seven were trapped alongside of logs in a drained cypress 



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