INSECTIVORA : SORICID^. 2Q 



Hoy's Shrew, 5. Hoyi, Baird, of Wisconsin, is one inch 

 and three quarters long to the tail, which is one inch and 

 a quarter ; the color olive chestnut-brown above, dull 

 rusty white beneath. 



Thompson's Shrew, 5. TJiompsonii, 

 Baird, of Nova Scotia to Ohio, is two 

 inches long to the tail, which is one 



Thompson's Shrew, 



inch and a quarter ; the color dark 



olive-brown above, ashy white beneath. 



S. palustris, Rich., of Hudson's Bay, is three and a half 

 inches long to the tail, which is over two and a half 

 inches ; the color hoary black above, ash-gray below. 



5. fitnbripcs, Bach., has been found only in Pennsyl- 

 vania. It is two and one eighth inches long to the tail, 

 which is one inch and three quarters ; the color brown 

 above, buff below. 



The Genus Blarina is characterized by a stout body, 

 tail shorter than the head, or nearly equal to it, and 

 coated with short bristly hairs, and with a small bunch 

 at the tip. The hands are large in proportion to the 

 feet, the palms as broad or broader than the soles, and 

 the latter usually hairy at the heels. The fore claws are 

 longer than the hind ones, external ear and auditory 

 opening invisible, the skull short and broad, anterior 

 upper incisors with the points simple, teeth rarely in 

 contact, and the lower anterior process of the lower jaw 

 short and stout. 



The Mole Shrew, B. talpoides, Gray, of Nova Scotia to 

 Georgia, is three' and a half inches long to the tail, which 

 is one inch ; the color dark ashy-gray. 



The Short-tailed Shrew, B. brevicauda, Gray, of Illinois 

 to Nebraska, is four inches to the tail, which is over one 

 inch ; the color dark brownish-plumbeous ; feet and edge 

 of lips whitish. 



The Carolina Shrew, B, carolincnsis, Bach., of South 



