Jl. Boone et J. Laerm, COTTON MICE, PEROMYSCUS-GOSSYPINUS LECONTE (RODENTIA, CRICETIDAE), INTHE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP AND SURROUNDING AREAS, Brimleyana, (18), 1993, pp. 125-129
Livetrapping of small mammals was conducted in the Great Dismal Swamp
and other areas of North Carolina in 1990. Five Peromyscus gossypinus
were caught in the Dismal Swamp proper, and 42 were caught in the Chow
an Swamp adjacent to the Dismal Swamp. These are the first published r
ecords of P. gossypinus taken in the Dismal Swamp region since the 193
0s.