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Deer-mouse (Peromyscus leucopus). 
Pine-mouse (Microtus pinetorum) . 
Cotton-tail Rabbit (Lepus floridanus mallurus) . 
Dusky Bat (Vespertilio fuscus). 
Common Mole (Scalops aquaticus) . 
Reptiles and Batrachians: 
Viscid Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) . 
Red Triton (Spelerpes ruber) . 
Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis). 
Ground Snake (Carphophiops amoenus). 
Chicken Snake (Coluber obsoletus) . 
Banded Rattlesnake (Crotalis horridus) . 
As the above-named species distinguish this zone from the 
Canadian, just so the following species distinguish it from he 
lower and warmer Upper Austral zone. 
Mammals: 
Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) . 
Brewer’s Mole (Scapanus breweri). 
Smoky Shrew (Sorex fumeus) . 
Red Squirrel (Sciurus hudsonius) . 
Wood-chuck (Artomys monax). 
Batrachians: 
Daniel’s Salamander (Spelerpes danielsi). 
Mountain Salamander ( Desmognathus quadrimaculatus) . 
3. The Upper Austral Zone seems to include (roughly speaking) 
all of our territory north and west of a line drawn from Suffolk, 
Va. to Raleigh, thence to Charlotte, and thence a little south of 
west to the South Carolina line at or near Tryon in Polk County, 
— except that part of the mountain region occupied by the Alle- 
ghanian and Canadian zones. The animals which occur in this 
zone in this state and which are generally considered to distin- 
guish it from the higher and colder Alleghanian zone are : 
Mammals: 
Opossum (Didelphis virginianus) . 
