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of New Berlin, a veteran mink trapper, helped me explore the 

 marshes thoroughly, but we had no success, not even finding a 

 track. While pushing my boat through the marsh at St. Charles 

 Creek early in March I saw a mink, but it disappeared beneath 

 the water before I could reach my gun. This was the nearest I 

 came to getting a mink in that whole region. Apparently minks 

 are not found at Enterprise, nor at Micco. 



Putorius peninsulse. 



Putorius peninsulae. Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phila., 

 1894, p. 152. 



One example, Enterprise, Florida. 



"I did not meet with weasels," says Mr. Surber, "anywhere, 

 but they are found in the region about Enterprise, where Mr. 

 Otto H. Voss presented me with a skin of an individual taken in 

 the neighborhood some time previously. An old negro shot one 

 last year (1899), in a hummock at the north end of Gleason's 

 pond, but thought it was a rat until informed otherwise. It 

 must be a very rare animal everywhere." 



ORDER INSECTIVORA. 

 FAM. I. SORICID.E. 



BLARINA. 





 Blarina brevicauda carolinensis. 



Blarina brevicauda carolinensis. (Bachm.,) Jour. Acad. Nat. 

 Scien. Phila., 1837, p. 366. 



One specimen, Apex, North Carolina. 



"Only two were taken on the trip, both in North Carolina, 

 one in a low and damp woodland, the other in an old field grown 

 up in broom grass." 



Blarina floridana. 



Blarina floridana. Merr. N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 19. 



One example, Enterprise, Florida. 



"One specimen of this pretty shrew was taken in a damp 

 palmetto hummock at Enterprise, the only one secured in the 

 State. It was taken in a trap baited with oatmeal. The ants 

 are so numerous in Florida, that they devour all the bait with 

 which shrews are usually taken (the flesh of birds, etc.), and it 

 was likely for that reason I did not get more." 



