. A biological survey of Alabama. I. Physiography and life zones. II. The mammals. Animals Alabama. 1921.] MAMMALS OF ALABAMA MICE. 47 from Virginia to Arkansas and Louisiana; in Alabama, however, it is restricted, so far as known, to the northern half of the State, from Montgomery County northward, and is in general less numerous than in the more northern parts of its range. Specimens have been taken at Muscle Shoals, Leighton, Woodville, Stevenson, Sand Mountain (near Carpenter), Erin (Clay County), Choccolocco Mountain, Greensboro, and Barachias (fig. 2)1 This species lives in a great varie
. A biological survey of Alabama. I. Physiography and life zones. II. The mammals. Animals Alabama. 1921.] MAMMALS OF ALABAMA MICE. 47 from Virginia to Arkansas and Louisiana; in Alabama, however, it is restricted, so far as known, to the northern half of the State, from Montgomery County northward, and is in general less numerous than in the more northern parts of its range. Specimens have been taken at Muscle Shoals, Leighton, Woodville, Stevenson, Sand Mountain (near Carpenter), Erin (Clay County), Choccolocco Mountain, Greensboro, and Barachias (fig. 2)1 This species lives in a great variety of situations, but usu- ally in or near tim- ber tracts. It is not so fond of the swampy bottom- lands as its relative, the cotton mouse, but is parial to upland woods, the borders of cultivated fields and brushy hedge rows; it ranges also up to the summits of the mountains, where it lives in rock piles and crevices in the cliffs. At Leighton, while hunting for wood rats (Neotoma) along the osage- orange hedges, the writer punched two of these mice out of a large rat nest about 10 or 12 feet high, among the branches of one of the trees. This species, like the cotton mouse, often dwells in hollow logs or stumps, or sometimes in hollow trees at no great distance from the ground. At times it appropriates the deserted nest of a bird in a bush or low tree, adding to it sufficient material to make a warm, covered nest; it is said, also, occasionally to construct a complete nest of its own in the branches of a bush, 5 to 15 feet from the ground. Audubon and Bachman describe such. _ *=^r* cC^--^Ora^%e. Beach PETIT BOIS VoAUPtHN' 10. Fig. 2.—Distribution of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus leucopus) in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howell, Arthur H. (Arthur Holmes), 1872-19
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