WEST VIRGINIA MAMMALS — KELLOGG 467 



SYNAPTOMYS COOPERI STONE! Rhoads 



Stone Mouse Lemming 



This lemming is found in a variety of ecological situations, such as 

 blue-grass pastures, old fields and hillsides, and sphagnum bogs. Near 

 Gilboa one was trapped along an old rail fence bounding a dry field 

 overgrown with broomsedge and grass about 50 yards from Peters 

 Creek and at least 100 yards from a hemlock thicket. In an open 

 forest of sugar maple, yellow birch, and spruce on a hillside about 30 

 yards from Cranberry Glades specimens were taken in runways under 

 the matted leaves. On the side of Cheat Mountain one was caught 

 at the entrance to a burrow in the moss growing around the base of 

 a spruce tree. Another was found drowned in the C. C. C. camp 

 reservoir on Black Mountain. Open woods and laurel thickets sur- 

 rounded this reservoir. 



The animal has been taken at White Sulphur Springs (Surber, 1909, 

 p. 53) and also near a little woodland stream at French Creek, Upshur 

 County (F. E. Brooks, 1911, p. 19). 



Nicholas County: Gilboa, 1. 



Pocahontas County: Black Mountain, Williams River, altitude 3,300 feet, 1; 



Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 2; near head of Cranberry River, 2; 



Travellers Repose, 4. 

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



3,900 feet. L 



CLETHRIONOMYS CAROLINENSIS (Merriam) 



Carolina Red-backed Mouse 



The records for this mouse are all in the eastern and southern 

 mountainous portions of the State. At Odd, red-backed mice were 

 trapped on a fairly dry hillside in runways under matted leaves near 

 an old rail fence in a thicket of hemlock and laurel. One was caught 

 in a trap set in a runway in a wet meadow at Cranberry Glades, where 

 numerous moss mounds on the roots of trees were growing. This 

 mouse may have come from one of these mounds, for on Cheat 

 Mountain, Middle Mountain, and Spruce Knob red-backed mice were 

 trapped only at the entrances to burrows in the moss mounds on the 

 roots of spruce and yellow birch. 



Greenbrier County: Jobs Knob, 13 miles north-northwest of Renicks Valley, 1. 



Pendleton County: Franklin, 8; Spruce Knob, 3. 



Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, 24; near head of Cranberry River, 1; 



Travellers Repose, 45. 

 Raleigh County: Odd, 1. 

 Randolph Coiinty: Cheat Mountain, 3 miles east of Cheat Bridge, 7. 



