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Blarina b. compacta BANGS. (Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, III, 1902, p. 77.) Type 

 locality Nantucket, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Size about that of 

 aloga; color slaty. 



Blarina b. aloga BANGS. (Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, III, 1902, p. 76.) Type lo- 

 cality West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Smaller than 

 brevicauda; color pale brown. 



Blarina b. talpoides (GAPPER). (Zool. Journ., V, 1830, p. 202, PL VIII.) Type 

 locality Between York and Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Slightly smaller 

 but otherwise very similar to brevicauda, and not considered by the writer as 

 worthy of recognition. 



Blarina b. peninsula (MERRIAM). (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 14.) Type lo- 

 cality Miami River, Dade Co., Florida. Similar to carolinensis, but color 

 more slaty and hind feet larger. 



Blarina b. hulophaga ELLIOT. (Field Columb. Mus. Pub., Zool. Ser., I, 1899, p. 287.) 

 Type locality Dougherty, Washita River, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Ter- 

 ritory. Smaller and paler than brevicauda; tail shorter. 



Blarina b. telmalestes (MERRIAM). (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 15.) Type lo- 

 cality Dismal Swamp, Virginia. Similar to brevicauda, but more plumbeous; 

 hind feet relatively longer; skull narrower. 



Subgenus CRYPTOTIS Pomel. 



Teeth 30; unicuspids 4, but the fourth usually minute (as in our 

 species, B. parva, in which it is hardly visible) ; basal cusp of middle 

 incisor rounded; brain-case highest anterior to lambdoid suture. 



Blarina parva (SAY). 

 SMALL SHORT-TAILED SHREW. 



Sorex parvus SAY, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, p. 164. 



Sorex eximius KENNICOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1857, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1858, p. 97 



(Dekalb Co., Illinois). 

 Blarina eximius BAIRD, Mammals N. Amer., 1857, p. 52 (St. Louis, Missouri; Dekalb 



Co., Illinois). 

 Blarina exilipes EVERMANN & BUTLER, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 132 



(Indiana). 

 Blarina parva MERRIAM, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 17 (Indiana, Nebraska, 



etc.). JACKSON, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 74 (S. W. Missouri). RHOADS 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), p. 202 (Tennessee). HAHN, Ann. 



Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 602 (Indiana). WOOD, 



Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 588 (Champaign and Mason 



counties, Illinois). 



Type locality West bank of Missouri River, near Blair (3 miles 

 above mouth of Boyer River), Nebraska. 



Distribution Southern United States (except Florida) ; from Texas 

 and Nebraska to the Atlantic coast, north to Illinois and Penn- 

 sylvania. 



