20 Journal of the Mitchell Society [July 



Pine Siskin, above 5,000 feet. 

 American Crossbill, above 5,000 feet. 

 Winter Wren, above 4,000 feet. 

 Brown Creeper, above 4,000 feet. 

 Redbreasted ISTutliatcli, above 5,000 feet. 

 Chickadee, above 5,000 feet. 

 Gold crowned Kinglet, above 5,000 feet. 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher, above 4,000 feet. 

 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, above 4,000 feet. 



The zone has not pecnliar reptiles, those entering it, if any, 

 being species occurring in the Alleghanian zone below. Its dis- 

 tinctive amphibians are also few, the most characteristic being 

 Plethodon metcalfi ; which however, ranges as far down as 

 3,500 feet, Plethodon shermani and Gyrinopliiliis porphyriticus 

 also seem to belong to this zone, though the first seems to be a 

 local form of very limited range, and of the latter we have only 

 two records, one of them quite unsatisfactory. 



The specific points which we are able to include in this zone 

 from a more or less com]:>lete knowledge of their fauna are, 

 the Black Mountains in Yancey and Buncombe Counties ; Roan 

 Mountain, in Mitchell County; Grandfather Mountain in Wa- 

 tauga County, Pisgah Eidge, and the Balsam Mountains in 

 Haywood County, the high mountains near Highlands, in Ma- 

 con County, Tuskwitty Mountain and Waj'ah Bald, also in Ma- 

 con County. Besides these the mountains along the state line 

 north of Cherokee County, as far as Roan Mountain, must 

 possess a Canadian fauna on their summits owing to their ele- 

 vation and the same is also true of all our mountains not named, 

 which reach 5,000 feet elevation and over. 



2. The Alleghanian Zone occupies the greater part of the 

 mountain region, its limits extending from about 2,500 feet to 

 4,500 feet, though many of its characteristic species extend up- 

 wards into the Canadian, or downwards into the Upper Austral 

 as well. 



The following mammals do not appear to range below this 

 zone: red squirre'l, woodchuck, starnosed and Brewer's moles, 

 mole-shrew, masked and smoky shrews, while the opossum. 



