VOL. X, PP. 133-134 DECEMBER 8, 1896 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



AN UNDESCRIBED SHREW OF THE GENUS SOREX. 

 BY CHARLES F. BATCHELDER. 



On September 9, 1895, at Beetle's, Essex county, New York, 

 I obtained a Shrew unlike any species known to me. It was 

 caught in one of several ' cyclone ' traps, baited with rolled oat 

 meal, that were set among some large, angular rocks at the head 

 of a wooded talus of loose rock. Just above, shading the spot 

 and keeping it moist and cool, rise the low cliffs from whose frag 

 ments the talus has been formed. 



Nearly a year later, on August 1, 1896, 1 caught a second speci 

 men of this Shrew on Mount Marcy, the highest of the Adiron 

 dack Mountains. It, too, was caught with oatmeal in a ' cyclone ' 

 trap. It was taken in a crevice between some rocks, on the bare, 

 open summit of the mountain, about 5300 feet above sea-level. 

 The locality where the first one was captured is about eight miles 

 distant, in an air line, and lies at an elevation of only 1300 feet 

 above the sea. 



I have compared this Shrew with other species of the genus 

 Sorex (the material for comparison I owe in some cases to the 

 unfailing kindness of Dr. C. Hart Merriam), and find it so dif 

 ferent from them all that I am led to describe it as follows : 



Sorex macrurus sp. nov. 



Type from Beede's [sometimes called Keene Heights], in the township 

 of Keene, Essex county, New York ; taken September 9, 1895. The 

 type is a young adult male, No. 1384, collection of C. F. Batchelder. 



General characters. Size large ; tail long ; body stout. 



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