WEST VIRGINIA MAMMALS — KELLOGG 471 



vals between rocks. This form is smaller and darker than the typical 

 insignis. 



Oreenbrier County: ? White Sulphur Springs, 1. 

 Pendleton County: Spruce Knob, 2. 



Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 1. 

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

 3,900 feet, 1. 

 It has been recorded (F. E. Brooks, 1911, p. 19) also from Turkey- 

 bone Mountain, 2 miles south-southeast of Pickens, Randolph 

 -County. 



ZAPUS HUDSO^fIUS HUDSONIUS (Zimmermann) 



Northern Jumping Mouse 



This jumping mouse occurs in meadows and wet fields overgrown 

 with shrubs in the area drained by the Ohio River and its tributaries. 

 The specimen (U. S. N. M. no. 18442) listed by Preble (1899, p. 17) 

 as coming from \^lieeling, W. Va., was actually collected by E. 

 Walton Hennig at Portland Station, Meigs County, Ohio. The 

 :animal has been recorded, however, by F. E. Brooks (1911, p. 19) 

 from French Creek in Upshur County and Sherrard in Marshall 

 County. 



Family ERETHIZONTIDAE 



ERETfflZON DORSATUM DORSATUM (Linnaeus) 



American Porcupine 



From time to time porcupines have been killed in the pine forests 

 on the lower ridges of Spruce Knob, Pendleton County. They have 

 never been very plentiful in the memory of present residents of that 

 area. Fred E. Brooks (1911, p. 20) reports that one was killed near 

 Morgan town, Monongalia County. 



Family LEPORIDAE 



LEPUS AMERICANUS VIRGINIANUS Harlan 



Virginia Varying Hare 



This hare seems to prefer dense forests where thickets and brush 

 abound, and especially tracts of woods broken by open glades. It is 

 seldom found in woodland devoid of underbrush. During the summer 

 months it frequents the dense "dark pine patches" on the higher points 

 of the Allegheny Mountains where the rays of the sun do not penetrate. 

 Accordmg to Fred E. Brooks (1911, p. 21), hunters reported that the 

 varying hare was abundant in places on Shavers Mountain and also 

 on Black Mountain, Pocahontas County, and that a number had been 

 seen in Canaan Valley, Tucker County. During the summer of 1936, 

 however, residents in Pocahontas and Randolph Counties reported 



