Masked Shrew and Red-backed Vole 17 



tion. All specimens were reposited in the mammal collections of the 

 University of Georgia Museum of Natural History. 



RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 



We recovered 15 S. cinereus at two of 17 Blue Ridge Province 

 sites. Both S. cinereus localities were in the northwestern portion of 

 Oconee County. Seven individuals were recovered from the grounds 

 of the Walhala Fish Hatchery in a hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and 

 rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) streamside community which 

 grades upslope into a yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), mixed 

 oak (Quercus spp.), hickory (Carya spp.), and white pine (Pinus strobus) 

 community. Elevation was approximately 760 m. The second S. 

 cinereus locality (eight captures) was approximately 1.3 km east of 

 the Walhala Fish Hatchery site in a moderate to mesic mixed oak 

 and yellow poplar hardwood community at approximately 800 m. 



Sorex cinereus was the dominant small mammal recovered in 

 the Walhala Fish Hatchery site. Fifteen small mammals were recov- 

 ered in 1,960 trap nights: seven S. cinereus, two S. fumeus, one Sorex 

 hoyi, one Blarina brevicauda, two Peromyscus maniculatus, and one 

 Clethrionomys gapperi. The recovery of S. cinereus was fairly evenly 

 distributed over the trapping period with one or two captured during 

 each sampling period. 



At the second site, also with 1,960 trap nights, 12 S. fumeus, 

 four S. hoyi, two Peromyscus leucopus, one P. maniculatus, two Blarina 

 brevicauda, and one Clethrionomys gapperi were captured in addition 

 to the eight S. cinereus. Here all the cinereus were captured between 

 20 March and 3 April; six of which were taken in a single pitfall trap 

 beneath a large, heavily rotted log. 



The breadth and intensity of our collection efforts indicate a 

 restricted distribution of S. cinereus in South Carolina. Sorex cinereus 

 is regarded as having a boreomontane distribution (Junge and 

 Hoffman 1981). In the southern Appalachians it has been documented 

 by Odum (1949), Johnston (1967), Gentry et al. (1968), Linzey and 

 Linzey (1971), Whitaker et al. (1975), and Lee et al. (1982) in west- 

 ern North Carolina; Conaway and Howell (1953), Smith et al. (1974), 

 and Harvey et al. (1991, 1992), in the mountainous regions of eastern 

 Tennessee; and Pagels and Tate (1976), Pagels and Handley (1989), 

 Pagels (1991), Kalko and Handley (1993), and Pagels et al. (1994) in 

 southwestern Virginia. It has not been recorded from elevations be- 

 low 610 m in southwestern Virginia (Pagels and Handley 1989) or 

 North Carolina (Linzey and Linzey 1971, Lee et al. 1982). Similarly, 



