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soils of AVest Tennessee and has witnessed the complete destruction 

 of large areas for farming purposes, due to careless tillage and heavy 

 rainfall, will appreciate the significance of this remark. 



Family SORICID^. 

 Genus BLARINA Gray. 



44. Blarina brevicauda (Say). Northern Blarina. 



Specimens from the summit of Roan' Mountain correspond closely 

 in size and color to Quebec examples. Those taken at Harriman 

 are appreciably smaller, like specimens from the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia. Bellevue skins and skulls show an exactly intermediate 

 size and character between the northern animal and subspecies caro- 

 linensis. As in the east, I found this to be the most ubiquitous 

 small mammal of subterranean habits. 



Specimens — Bellevue, 1 ; Sawyer's Springs, 1 ; Harriman, 4 ; 

 Roan Mt., Carter Co., 2. 



45. Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). Southern Blarina. 



The southern mole-shrew inhabits the bottom lands of West 

 Tennessee both in the open and in deep, swampy woods. Typical 

 specimens from the shores of Reelfoot Lake and Wolf River con- 

 firm Dr. Merriam's recent (1895) diagnosis of this subspecies in 

 North American Fauna, No. 10. Dr. Merriam records (1. c, p. 14) 

 a specimen from Big Sandy, on the river of same name in Benton 

 County. 



Specimens — Samburg, 4; Raleigh, 1. 



46. Blarina parva (Say). Least Blarina. 



Prof Baird records a specimen of what he called Blarina exilipes 

 from Brownsville, Tennessee, obtained by Capt. S. Van Vliet. 

 Baird's exilipes being proved a synonym of parva, I place it as above. 

 Dr. Merriam^^ questions if Baird's record should not have been 

 Brownsville, Texas. No evidence to the contrary being given, 

 and the habitat of parva being in the faunal territory occupied 

 by West Tennessee, I feel justified in accepting Baird's record as 

 it stands. I did not secure any of this species, nor can I find other 

 records of its occurrence in the State. 



Genus SOREX Linnaeus. 



47. Sorex personatus (Geoff. St. Hil.). Masked Shrew. 



In the deep balsam forests which crown the summit of Roan 



'* N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 7. 



