Some Notes on the Mammals of Mammoth Cave, Ky. 



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ARTICLE IV.— SOME NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF 

 MAMMOTH CAVE, KENTUCKY. 



By Samuel. N. Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa. 



(The " notes," which constitute the body of this paper, were 

 prepared by Mr. Rhoads for use in another place and publi- 

 cation. But so little is known of the mammals of caverns, and 

 the present impossibility of presenting this matter in the form 

 originally intended have influenced the writer to present them 

 through the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. It is but 

 just to Mr. Rhoads to say that this disposition of his " notes " 

 is wholly on the authority of the writer, for whom they were 

 made. At some future time another contribution may be 

 offered, which will be complete, for the fauna and flora of the 

 great cavern. — R. Ellsworth Call) 



Alleghany Cave Rat. Nkotoma magister Baird. 



" Rat of the Blue Mountains: Bartram," in Kalm's Trav. (For- 

 sters's ed.), 1771, pp. 47-48. 



American Rat: Pennant, Hist. Quad., 1781, p. 441 (quotes Kalm). 



Neotoma floridana Baird : Mam. N. Amer., 1857, p. 489 (in part ; 

 name applied to New York specimens in National Museum) . 



Neotoma magister Baird : Mam. N. Amer., 1857, p. 498 (Rhoads' 

 Reprint Ords' Zool., Sept., 1894, appx., p. 16 ; Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Phila., Oct., 1894, pp. 213-221 ; ibid., 1896, p. 192). 



Neotoma pennsylvanica Stone: (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 1893, p. 16 ; Merriam, ibid., 1894, p. 244.) 



Geographic distribution. Alleghanian fauna, extending 

 northeastward along the Blue Ridge to isolated localities in 

 southern New York, eastern Massachusetts (?) and Connecti- 

 cut (?), southward to Alabama, and west to Mammoth Cave, 

 Kentucky. 



Habitat. Cliffs, caves, and rock ledges of the mountains, 

 descending into the lowlands, where limestone caves afford 

 it security. 



( Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIX, No. 2.) I Printed March 24, 1897. 



