394 FAUNA OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHANIES. 
Alton, Illinois, from which place I have a specimen of that 
species. 
My object at present is to show that the region, including 
the crest of the Alleghany Mountains to their southern ex- 
tremity in Georgia, possesses a fauna in many respects entirely 
different from that of the southern two-thirds of the Alle- 
ghanian fauna as defined by Verrill, and in some respects as 
similar to the Canadian. My conclusions are based more on 
observations on the distribution of birds than on animals of | 
other classes, as were also those of Professor Verrill. They 
are very imperfect, and I have no doubt that additional ob- 
servations will increase the weight of evidence in the direc- 
tion here pointed out. 
Among Mammalia three species may be noticed, namely : 
Sciurus Hudsonius, Cervus Canadensis, Lynx Canadensis. 
The first named species is characteristically northern, and 
little known in the southern part of the above defined Alle- 
ghanian fauna. In southern and eastern Virginia it is un- 
known, as well as in North Carolina and Tennessee. It is, 
however, not uncommon on the summits and crests of the 
Alleghanies in both the former states. In North Carolina 
and southern Virginia it is so restricted to the heights as not 
even to descend into the mountain valleys. I resided for 
nearly two months at the Warm Springs, Madison county, 
North Carolina, and in Henderson county, in the same state, 
at an elevation of two thousand five hundred feet above the 
sea, without observing a single individual; yet the inhabi- 
tants are well acquainted with them as game of the moun- 
tain tops, under the name of the “Mountain Boomer,” a 
name they bear in Virginia, also. This distribution and 
name are mentioned by Audubon and Bachman in their great 
work, 
The elk is recorded by Baird as having left remains, during 
human habitation, in West Virginia. Of this fact I was also 
assured when in the same region. Dr. Hardy, of Asheville, 
North Carolina, states that horns of the elk were found in 
