Order IX. Insectivora, The Insectivores, 



Family I. Soririda.'. Slirt'\v*. 



Subfamily I. Soricinae. 



Genus 143. Sorox. Common Shiv\vs. 



Sorex Linn., Syst. Xat., i, 1758, p. 53; i, 1766, p. 73. Type Sorex 

 arancits Linnaeus. 



1071. Sorex personatus 1. Geoff. St. Hilaire. 



Sorex persoinittts I. Geoff. St. Hil., Mem. du Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



xv, 1827, p]>. 122-125. Elliot, Syn. X. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., ii, 1901, p. 366. Zool. Ser. 

 Sorex /or.v/rrz' Rich., Zool. Journ., in, 1828, p. 516. 

 Sorex coo peri Hachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, p. 388, 



pi. xxiv, fig. 7. 

 Sore\' jutihripes Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 



p. 391, pi. xxiv, fig. 8. 

 Ainfhisurex letitenri Duvern., Mag. Zool., Mamm., 1842, p. 33, 



pi. L. 



Sorex platyrhynchus Linsh-y/Sillim. Am. Journ. Scion., XLIII, 1842, 



P- 346. 

 (Uisi'i'ex platyrhinus DeKay, Zool. N. Y., i, 1842, p. 22, pi. v, 



fig. i. 



Sorex litiy>leui Haird, X. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 29. 



Sorex riJHirJxniii Dobson, Mon. Insectiv., i, Pt. in, 1890, pi. xxin, 

 fig. 9. (nee Bachm.) 



Sorex itliiln>etisix Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 5, 1891, p. 32. 

 MASK.KD SHRHW. 



type locality. Eastern United States. 



Geci^r. Jtistr. Xc\v 1-hi^land to Alaska and south in high moun- 

 tains to Tennessee and North Carolina. Not found in the southern 

 Rocky Mountains or in the Cascade or Sierra Ranges. 



a. Snrr.v iirrsnini I it x xlrritluri Mrrriam. 



Sorex persmitiliis strdit>>ri Mi-rr., X. Am. l ? aun., No. 10, 1895, p. 62. 

 Llliot. Syn. X. Am. Mamm., !". C. M. 1'ub., n, igoi, p. 367. 

 Zool. Ser. 



STRKATOK'S SHUI-:\V. 



/ : -tlity. \'akutat , Alaska. 



. I'istr. Rangi- unknown. 



4 n; 



