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hillsides the animals appear to prefer crevices in exposed rocky ledges. 

 In coniferous forests on the mountain slopes they are most plentiful 

 around rotten trunks of fallen trees. During 1936 the first specimen 

 was taken in Cabell County on April 23 and the last on October 17 

 on Great Flat Top Mountain in Raleigh County. 



Barbour Covinty: 7 miles east of Philippi, 2. 



Cabell County: 5 miles east of Huntington, 2. 



Calhoun Coiinty: 5 miles west of Grantsville, 2; Freed., 1. 



Greenbrier County: White Sulphur Springs, 3. 



Logan County: lH miles south of Big Creek, 1. 



Mercer County: Flat Top, altitude 3,200 feet, 1. 



Morgan County: Berkeley Springs, 2. 



Nicholas County: Gilboa, 3; Pine Creek, V/i miles north of Zela, 1. 



Pendleton County: Franklin, 9; Spruce Knob, altitude 4,700 feet, 2. 



Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 4. 



Raleigh County: Odd, altitude 2,900 feet, 1; Redbird, 2. 



Randolph Co\inty: Elkins, 1; Middle Mountain, 12 miles northeast of Durbin, 3» 



TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS ABIETICOLA Howell 



Cloudland Red Squirrel, or Fine Squirrel 



During 1936 the National Museum party did not obtain any 

 authentic records of the occurrence of the Cloudland red squirrel 

 outside of the Allegheny Mountain region. Red squirrels were found 

 mostly in the spruce woods. Occasionally they were observed in 

 mixed woods of deciduous and coniferous trees. In 1936 red squirrels 

 seemed to be more abundant on Cheat Mountain and along both forks 

 of the Cranberry than elsewhere in the areas visited by the Museum 

 party. In Pocahontas County the red squirrel is called "fairy-diddle.'* 

 In 1896 Fred E. Brooks (1911, p. 14) found red squirrels feeding on 

 buckeyes on the slopes of Black Mountain. The "vermin" campaigns 

 now being conducted in West Virginia are depleting the numbers of 

 these squirrels. Unfortunately, in campaigns of this sort, where a 

 premium is placed on the number of red squirrels taken, no concerted 

 effort is made to restrict the killing to areas where control may appear 

 advisable. 



The seasonal changes of pelage are marked, the most noticeable 

 characteristics of the winter pelage being the longer hairs, the less- 

 noticeable grizzling of the upperparts, and the presence of a broad 

 dorsal reddish band extending from top of head to base of tail. In 

 summer the pelage is darker and distinctly grizzled, and the reddish 

 dorsal band is absent. 



Pocahontas Coiinty: Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 12; Williams River^ 

 12 miles west of Marlinton, altitude 3,300 feet, 2; Travellers Repose, 13. 



Randolph County: Cheat Mountain, 3 miles west of Cheat Bridge, altitude 

 3,900 feet, 5; Middle Mountain, 11 miles northeast of Durbin, 5. 

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