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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



VOL. 84 



U. S. Biological Survey 



J. D. Figgins, 1890. 



Richard Elkins, 1892. 



E. B. Vaughan, 1892. 



R. S. Matthews, 1895. 



E. A. Preble, 1895, 1909. 



Vernon Bailey, 1897, 1924, 1928. 



C. G. Rorebeck, 1897. 



W. J. Yeager, 1897, 1902. 



T. B. Wilson, 1903. 



J. L. Yost, 1907, 1908. 



Fred E. Brooks, 1909. 



Arthur H. Howell, 1909, 1910. 



Frank Houchin, 1910. 



B. L. Yost, 1910. 



Mrs. T. H. Ward, 1915. 



A. B. Brooks, 1916. 



James Silver, 1921. 



U. S. National Museum 

 Spencer F. Baird, 1850. 

 C. B. R. Kennedy, 1850. 



A. Brakeley, 1856, 1857. 

 Gustave Kohn, 1886. 

 Mrs. C. Hart Merriam, 1888. 

 Wirt Robinson, 1896, 1897. 

 Thaddeus Surber, 1896, 1897. 

 J. H. Riley, 1899. 

 W. P. Hay, 1900. 

 Lee Hiett, 1900. 

 Isaac Helmick, 1905. 

 J. R. Godlove, 1911. 

 C. Worthington, 1916. . 



B. L. Chambers, 1924. ^ 

 A. B. Brooks, 1928. 

 W. J. Hamilton, Jr., 1931. 

 A. M. Reese, 1933, 1936. 

 Andrew W. Alt, 1935. 

 Remington Kellogg, 1936. 

 Carleton Lingebach, 1936. 

 W. M. Perrygo, 1936. 



Family DIDELPHIIDAE 



DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA VIRGINIANA Kerr 



Opossum 



Opossums are seldom found very far away from timbered bottom 

 lands, ^a^^nes, or rock ledges on bluffs and hillsides. They occur less 

 frequently in dry upland woods. They are chiefly nocturnal. During 

 the day they hide in abandoned woodchuck burrows, under roots of 

 trees, in hollow logs, in crevices in rock ledges, or in old nests made of 

 leaves by gray squirrels. Two opossums were trapped in Cabell 

 County during the latter part of April 1936. One of these was a large 

 female that had 11 young in the pouch, ranging from 26 to 28 mm 

 in length. During the winter of 1908-09, two were killed by Frank 

 Houchin at Cranberry Glades, Pocahontas County (F. E. Brooks, 1911, 

 p. 11), indicating that their vertical range goes at least to 3,300 feet. 

 They are occasionally killed by automobiles on the highways. One 

 thus killed was seen near Summers ville during October 1936. 



Cabell Cotinty: 3 miles east of Huntington, 2. 



Family TALPIDAE 



PARASCALOPS BREWERI (Bachman) 



Hairy-tailed Mole 



Available records indicate that the hairy-tailed mole occurs through- 

 out the eastern mountainous portion of the State as well as along the 

 Ohio drainage in the western part. It has not as yet been reported 



