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selectively placed within particular plant communities rather than dis- 

 tributed in grid patterns. Pitfall traps at two study sites, with and with- 

 out drift fences, were left in place for extended periods and, although 

 not included in our trap tallies, represent thousands of additional trap- 

 nights. In addition, museum records, interviews with local residents, 

 trappers and others familiar with the areas studied, personal sight 

 records, and examinations of tracks and other sign, were used in compil- 

 ing the faunal list presented here. Additional random information 

 obtained from over 200 field-days and 25 evenings of mist netting and 

 shooting bats is also included. 



All North Carolina pocosins and Carolina bays that had been 

 extensively studied and described in publications were visited to ensure 

 that the community terminology used here was in general agreement 

 with that of past studies. The difficulty of trapping small mammals in 

 the Coastal Plain in general, of trapping in pocosins in particular, and 

 unequal field effort in various community stages or areas, make it 

 unlikely that our mammal lists for each plant community are definitive 

 (bat information is particularly scarce). Because many of the areas 

 studied are in transition from one community type to another, and many 

 of our records are from ecotonal areas and disturbed or altered sites, 

 assessing the species composition of specific communities is difficult. 



The mammal fauna of Carolina bays, pocosins, and associated 

 communities was studied in parts of Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Curri- 

 tuck, Dare, Hoke, Moore, Pasquotank, and Pender counties, North 

 Carolina, between October 1979 and April 1984 (Fig. 3). Sites were not 

 inventoried with equal field effort. The following sites were studied 

 (total trap-nights per county are in parentheses): Bladen Co. (4,009) — 

 Bay Tree Lake (Black Lake), Jones Lake, Little Singletary Lake, Salters 

 Lake, Singletary Lake, Suggs Mill Pond (Horseshoe Lake), White Lake, 

 one unnamed bay 3.2 km east of Kelly on NC 53, and another 17.8 km 

 east of Kelly on NC 53. Brunswick Co. (266) — Green Swamp, 17.8 km 

 north of Supply on NC 211; Sunny Point area. Carteret Co. (335)— 

 Croatan National Forest, 4.8 km east of Newport. Columbus Co. 

 (219) — Lake Waccamaw (town), Lake Waccamaw State Park. Curri- 

 tuck Co. (2,123) — Coinjock area and northward. Dare Co. (3,675) — 

 mainland between US 64 and US 264. Hoke Co. (4,400+)— North Caro- 

 lina Biological Survey Study Site at McCain. Moore Co. (200) — Wey- 

 mouth Woods State Park. Pasquotank Co. (1,261)— Dismal Swamp, 

 "Big Ditch." Pender Co. (0) — Holly Shelter Game Management area. 

 The Currituck and Pasquotank counties data are from the eastern and 

 southern edge of the Dismal Swamp, but include no true pocosin habi- 

 tats. Nevertheless, the comparative geographic and abundance informa- 

 tion obtained from these sites is informative. Specific specimen records 



