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Small Mammals in Great Dismal Swamp 
Table 1. Numbers of individual small mammals taken in a range of habitats 
using three different trapping methods during concurrent studies in the Great 
Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. 
Live Pitfall Nest-box 
Species 
trapping trapping trapping 
Total 
Percent 
Southeastern shrew 
Sorex longirostris 
0 
44 
0 
44 
12.26 
Short-tailed shrew 
Blarina brevicauda 
14 
51 
0 
65 
18.11 
Least shrew 
Cryptotis parva 
0 
5 
0 
5 
1.39 
Marsh rice rat 
Oryzomys palustris 
1 
0 
0 
1 
0.28 
Eastern harvest mouse 
Reithrodontomys humulis 
71 
5 
0 
76 
21.17 
White-footed mouse 
Peromyscus leucopus 
14 
10 
36 
60 
16.71 
Golden mouse 
Ochrotomys nuttalli 
22 
3 
9 
34 
9.47 
Hispid cotton rat 
Sigmodon hispidus 
2 
0 
0 
2 
0.56 
Meadow vole 
Microtus pennsylvanicus 
13 
13 
0 
26 
7.24 
Woodland vole 
Microtus pinetorum 
3 
1 
0 
4 
1.11 
Southern bog lemming 
Synaptomys cooperi 
13 
27 
0 
40 
11.42 
House mouse 
Mus musculus 
2 
0 
0 
2 
0.56 
Total individuals 
155 
159 
45 
359 
Total species 
10 
9 
2 
12 
a Percent refers to the proportion of that species to the total individuals (359) 
taken in the study. 
