WEST VIRGINIA MAMMALS — KELLOGG 463 



Barbour Covmty: Bills Creek, 7 miles east of Philippi, 7; Sugar Creek, 5 miles east 



of Philippi, 3. 

 Greenbrier County: Katis Mountain, White Sulphur Springs, altitude 3,000 



feet, 2. 

 Mason County: Mercers Bottom, 1. 

 Nicholas County: Gilboa, 1. 

 Pocahontas County: Cranberry Mountain, Cranberry Glades, 1; Travellers 



Repose, 2; Williams River, 12 miles east of Marlinton, 1. 

 Baleigh County: Odd, altitude 2,900 feet, 1. 



GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS FUSCUS Miller 



West Virginia Flying Squirrel 



The range of this gray-faced flying squirrel within the State is im- 

 perfectly known. The type specimen was taken at an altitude of 

 3,300 feet in a fairly thick forest of spruce, sugar maple, beech, and 

 yellow birch. It was caught in a Schuyler trap nailed to the trunk 

 of a large spruce growing about 10 yards from the bank of the north 

 fork of the Cranberry River. Two individuals were trapped at an 

 altitude of 3,900 feet on Cheat Mountain in a tract of sugar maple, 

 beech, yellow birch, and spruce. Both of these specimens were taken 

 in traps nailed to the trunks of very large shaggy-barked sugar maples. 

 On the basis of these occurrences it appears that this flying squirrel 

 lives in the Canadian life zone in eastern West Virginia. Doutt 

 (1930, p. 239) collected a northern flying squirrel in an isolated tract 

 of similar Canadian trees in Potter County, Pa. This indicates that 

 the animal may also occur in the Allegheny Mountains in the north- 

 eastern part of the State. 



Kandolph Coiinty: Cheat Mountain, 3 miles west of Cheat Bridge, 2. 

 Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, 1. 



Family CASTORIDAE 



CASTOR CANADENSIS CANADENSIS Kuhl 



Northern Beaver 



There are surprisingly few references to beavers in West Virginia 

 in the accounts left by early travelers. English and French traders 

 had established posts along the Ohio River prior to the arrival of the 

 settlers. Before 1740 the Pennsylvania trader James Le Tort had a 

 post at Letart, Mason County. Beaver skins were valued at 6 

 shillings a pound in 1763 (Hanna, 1911, p. 374). According to Hale 

 (1886, p. 170), Paddy Huddlestone and Daniel Boone trapped about 

 a dozen beavers at the upper end of Long Shoal, a few miles below 

 Kanawha Falls, Fayette County. Boone was a surveyor in this 

 region from 1789 to 1798. The beaver reported killed in Pocahontas 

 County about 1907 is thought to have escaped from captivity (Brooks, 

 1911, p. 15). Some years ago remnants of old beaver dams were 



