TENNESSEE MAMMALS — KELLOGG 281 



PEROMYSCUS GOSSYPINUS MEGACEPHALUS (Rhoads): Rhoads's 

 Cotton Mouse, or Cane Mouse 



The cotton mouse may occur in suitable localities throughout 

 western and middle Tennessee. It seems to show some preference for 

 cliffs and rocky bluffs, especially caves and crevices, and is found also 

 in brushy thickets and timbered uplands, as well as in swampy areas. 

 Rhoads (1896, p. 189) found this mouse abundant in deciduous 

 woods with dense underbrush in the lowest and wettest parts of 

 overflowed lands bordering Reelfoot Lake near Samburg, Obion 

 County. In the vicinity of Big Sandy, G. A. Coleman trapped cot- 

 ton mice in timbered bottomlands. The same collector caught others 

 in traps set under rocks near the mouth of Dunbars Cave near 

 Clarksville. 



Cotton mice seem to prefer open woodlands and the growths of 

 brush bordering old cultivated fields in the Great Smoky Mountains 

 National Park, according to Komarek and Komarek (1938, p. 156). 

 Specimens were collected by their field party at Greenbrier and along 

 Fighting Creek near Gatlinburg in Sevier County. 



This large-footed mouse resembles leucopus in general coloration 

 but attains a somewhat larger size. For six males from Arlington 

 (4) and Duck River (2) the average measurements are as follows: 

 Total length, 189.4 (179-200) ; tail 84.5 (78-90) ; hind foot, 24.08 

 (23-25). The average measurements of nine females from Arlington 

 (3), Big Sandy (1), Clarksville (4), and Duck River (1) are as 

 follows: Total length, 190.7 (170-205); tail, 83.44 (78-92); hind 

 foot, 23.55 (23-25). 



Benton County: Big Sandy, 3. 



Campbell County: Highcliff, 1. 



Humphreys County: Duck River, 6 miles southwest of Waverly, 3. 



Lawrence County: Lawrenceburg, 1. 



Montgomery County: Clarksville, 7. 



Shelby County: Arlington, 9. 



PEROMYSCUS NUTTALLI NUTTALLI (Harlan): Northern Golden Mouse 



The golden mouse may be recognized by its soft, thick pelage and 

 heavily furred underparts, the white of the latter being suffused with 

 ochraceous. At an altitude of 3,000 feet in a dense hemlock forest 

 on the southeast slope of the Holston Mountains, golden mice were 

 caught by Perry go and Lingebach in traps set among moss-covered 

 boulders. They have been taken along the borders of broomsedge 

 fields, brier patches, and old fences near Fighting Creek, Greenbrier, 

 and Porters Flats in Sevier County (Komarek and Komarek, 1938, 

 p. 15G). In middle Tennessee they may occur in swampy woodland, 

 as well as on brushy hillsides and in dry thickets bordering timber. 



