CORRECTIONS OF RECORDS OF OCCURRENCE OF PEROMYSCUS-POLIONOTUS (WAGNER) AND P-GOSSYPINUS (LECONTE) (RODENTIA, MURIDAE) IN THE BLUE-RIDGE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA

Reexamination of marginal records of Peromyscus polionotus and P. goss ypinus previously reported from the Blue Ridge Province of Georgia ind icate specimens were misidentified. Neither species occurs in the Blue Ridge Province. The distribution of P. polionotus is restricted to so uth of a line from Greenville and Spartanburg counties, South Carolina , southeast to Clarke, County, Georgia and west to Dawson and Cherokee counties, Georgia. The distributional limit of P. gossypinus is south of a line from Lincoln and Wilkes counties, Georgia west to Dekalb an d Fulton counties and then west and north to Polk, Floyd, and Dade cou nties.