236 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Zoology : Merriam. C. Hart. i. Revision of the American 

 genera Blarina and Notiosorex. 2. Tlie long-tailed shrews of the Eastern 

 United States. 3. Synopsis of the American shrews of the genus Sorex 

 forming pt. No. 10 of "North American Fauna," Dec. 1895. 



The first and third papers are by our Corresponding member, Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam. and the second by Gilbert S. Miller, jr. Together, 

 they contain 100 pages of letter press accompanied by twelve plates of 

 illustrations. The history, nomenclature and descriptions of the genera 

 and species of North American long-tailed and short-tailed shrews are 

 given in the two first-named papers. Many of the species described or 

 recorded are from Canada and these are noted for the sake of reference. 



1. One Canadian Genus and Species of Short-Tailed Shrews. 



1. Blarina brevicauda, Say, (Sorex talpoides, Gapper.) 

 Vicinity of Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Rat Portage, Lake of the Woods, 

 and Ottawa,Ont. are all given as Canadian localities, besides Digby,N.S. 



// Long- Tailed Shrews, from Canadian localities. 



1. Sorex Hoyi, Baird. Belongs to the new sub-genus : Microsorex, 

 Baird. Recorded from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



2. Sorex palnstric, Richardson. Locality : between Hudson Bay 

 and the Rocky Mts. precise loc, South Edmonton, Alberta. This 

 species is referred to the sub-genus Neosorex, Baird. 



3. Sorex albibarlns, (Cope.) Can. loc , Lac aux Sables, Quebec, and 

 Nova Scotia. 



4. Sorex Richardsoni, Bach man, Manitoba west to Alberta. 



5. Sorex fumeus Miller, N. Sp. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and 

 west to Ontario and the great lakes. 



6. Sorex personates, Saint-Hilaire. The male specimens recorded 

 came from South Edmonton, Alberta. 



