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(From "Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1936")
COLLECTING BIRDS AND MAMMALS IN WEST VIRGINIA
By WATSON M. PERRYGO
[[italics]] Assistant Scientific Aid, Division of Mammals, U.S.National Museum [[end italics]]
   As a considerable area in West Virginia was unrepresented in the National Museum's collection of birds and mammals during the past season, Carleton Lingebach and I were assigned the task of collecting specimens from that region. We left on April 16, 1936 , for White Sulphur Springs accompanied by Dr Remington Kellogg. During the 2 days spent there, we set traps for a subspecies of flying squirrel, but were unsuccessful in our efforts. However did get some mice and birds. From there we continued to Huntington, in the southwestern corner of the State. We stayed there about 2 weeks, working the Guyandot Valley to Logan, where, among other things, we got a Swainson's warbler, constituting the second record from West Virginia. We also worked up the Twelve Pole Creek to Dunlow.
   Dr. Kellogg returned to Washington, and we continued on to Summersville, where the altitude reaches 1,750 feet. This section , about the middle of the State, is heavily wooded country, and the rhododendron grows abundantly. Dr. Alexander Wetmore joined us here on May 8.
   In Richwood we obtained permission from the forest ranger to visit Cranberry Glades, which is part of the Monongahela National Forest. We followed the Cranberry River  starting at an altitude of 2,200 feet, and went up to about 3,300 feet to the glades. This beautiful river is one of the finest trout streams in the State. The glades lie between Black Mountain and the Kennison Mountains and are grown with spruce forest beginning about 3,000 feet. Birds are very numerous, especially the grouse, which we could hear drumming daily through the mountains. We saw several signs of bear, this section being apparently one of their main strongholds in the State. We saw here flat, moss-covered areas which seem to have been lake bottoms at one time. The scenery has a northern aspect recalling parts of Canada.
   After Dr. Wetmore's return to Washington, we went to Grantsville, where we spent a profitable week, obtaining a variety of birds.
   In the northeastern part of the State we camped in an oak grove near Philippi. The hills here are rolling and less steep than where we had been previously, the altitude being around 1,900 or 2,000 feet. many kinds of birds and mammals were abundant here; we got a good collection of flying squirrels, as well as two Bewick's
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