WEST VIRGINIA MAMMALS — KELLOGG 473 



Three full- term fetuses were taken from a female killed on April 20, 

 1936, near Huntington. 



Barbour County: 7 miles east of Philippi, 2. 

 Cabell County: 5 miles east of Huntington, 2. 

 Mason County: Mercers Bottom, 1. 

 Nicholas Coujnty: Gilboa, 2. 



SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONAUS (Bangs) 



New England Cottontail 



The range of this cottontail extends southward through West 

 Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains. It is a forest-inhabiting species, 

 preferring tracts with dense underbrush. Specimens collected by 

 A. B. Brooks (1929, p. 544) in Morgan County in 1915 were identified 

 as this species. 



Greenbrier County: Ronceverte, 1; White Sulphur Springs, 2. 

 Morgan County: Great Cacapon Mountain, 2. 

 Pocahontas County: Travellers Repose, 2. 



Family CERVIDAE 



ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Boddaert) and ODOCOILEUS VIRGIWANUS 



BOREAUS Miller 



White-tailed Deer 



Deer seem to have been plentiful for many years after the arrival 

 of the early settlers. Their sldns were used by hunters and settlers 

 for clothing and moccasins, and thousands were sold to traders. 

 Deer skins "in the hair" were valued by the traders in 1763 at 18 

 pence a pound. The first attempts to restrict the killing of deer 

 seem to have been made as early as 1801. During that year in 

 Pendleton County killing between January 1 and August 1 was pro- 

 hibited, the fine for such an offense being $5 (Morton, 1910, p. 356). 



Fred E. Brooks (1911, p. 11) concludes that the native deer belong 

 mostly to the northern subspecies, and it is likely that this race did 

 occur in the mountains of eastern West Virginia. The ranges of 

 northern races of other mammals do extend southward in the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains. The Virginia race, however, may have ranged 

 over the lowlands of Greenbrier County, the lower Kanawha Valley, 

 and the Ohio and its smaller tributaries. 



Numerous references to deer appear in the journals of early traders 

 and hunters. The earhest record for deer in West Virginia appears 

 to be one mentioned in Fallam's journal (Bushnell, 1907, p. 51). 

 This deer was killed during September 1671 near the falls of Great 

 Kanawha River. Gist (Darlington, 1893, pp. 72, 142) records that 

 he killed deer during January 1752 in Marshall County. Colonel 

 Croghan (1831, p. 260) states that many deer were seen in May 

 1765 along the Ohio River between the mouth of the Little Kanawha 



