WEST VIRGINIA MAMMALS— KELLOGG 465 



On the wooded bluffs along the Ohio Kiver the northern white- 

 footed mice were most abundant near rock ledges. In the Guyan- 

 dotte River Valley they were usually trapped under the exposed roots 

 of elms and oaks growing on the banks of small streams. Along Sugar 

 Creek near Philippi they were caught in traps set in crevices in the 

 rock ledges on hillsides forested with birch, oak, and poplar. They 

 were caught also in traps set in crevices between rocks loosened by the 

 roots of hemlocks growing on the banks of Peters Creek near Gilboa. 

 On Great Fkt Top Mountain near Odd one was caught in a large 

 Schuyler trap that had been nailed to the trunk of a beech tree, 5 or 

 6 feet above the base. Others were trapped under a dilapidated rail 

 fence. 



Barbour County: 7 miles east of Philippi, 2. 

 Cabell County: 5 miles east of Huntington, 3. 



Greenbrier County: White Sulphur Springs, 19; Jobs Knob, 13 miles north- 

 northwest of Renicks Valley, 1. 

 Lincoln County: Fourteen, 1. 

 Mason County: Mercers Bottom, 3. 

 Mineral County: Ridgeley, 5. 

 Nicholas County: Gilboa, 6. 

 Pendleton County: Franklin, 4. 

 Baleigh County: Redbird, 1; Marshes, 3; Odd, altitude 2,900 feet, 2. 



PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS BAIRDII (Hoy and Kennicott) 



Prairie White-footed Mouse 



The known range of this short-tailed mouse has now been extended 

 eastward from central Ohio to the Panhandle of West Virginia. 

 Two specimens collected by Karl W. Haller on March 24, 1937, along 

 the Avalon-Bethany pike in Ohio County were submitted to the U. S. 

 Biological Survey for identification by A. B. Brooks. 



PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS NUBITERRAE Rhoads 



Cloudland White-footed Mouse 



These long-tailed white-footed mice are most plentiful in the higher 

 altitudes of the Allegheny Mountains. They are found generally on 

 the drier hill slopes around rock crevices, stumps, rotten logs, brush 

 piles, and the like. In the Cranberry Glades most of the specimens 

 taken were trapped around rock slides on the mountain slopes. Some 

 were caught in large Schuyler traps that had been nailed to the trunks 

 of spruce and beech trees. In the vicinity of Cheat Bridge they were 

 trapped at the entrances to holes in the moss covering the roots and 

 base of trunks of spruce trees. Along Wiihams River they were most 

 plentiful on the wooded hillsides. On Spruce Knob some were caught 

 in the loose shale on the top of the Knob, others along rotten logs on 

 the slopes, in runways in the moss at the bases of trees, and in traps 



