66 Howell — Notes on the Distribution of Ceiiain Mammals. 



any records of the species from farther south than North Carolina. A 

 skin, without skull, taken at High Cliflf, Campbell County, Tennessee, has 

 been received by the Biological Survey. 



"Weasels were reported to me as occurring rarely at Reform and Castle- 

 berry, Alabania, but whether of this species or not is uncertain. Reports 

 have been received also from AV. J. Hoxie, of the capture of a weasel at 

 Quitman, Georgia, and another near Savannah. These should doubtless 

 be referred to P. peninfiulae. 



Sorex fumeus Miller. 



SMOKY SHREW. 



This species, known previously from as far south as Roan Mountain, 

 North Carolina, was obtained on the summit of Brasstown Bald, Geor- 

 gia (one specimen, d^, July IG), and at High Cliff', Tennessee (one speci- 

 men, 9 ) August 21). Tlie specimen taken on Brasstown Bald was trapped 

 in a dense growth of rhododendron, at the base of a cliff", at 4,700 feet 

 altitude. The one from High Cliff" was caught at 1,000 feet altitude, in a 

 damp, heavily-timbered ravine, near the ba.se of the north escarpment of 

 Fine Mountain. 



Sorex longirostris Bachman. 



CAROLINA SHREW. 

 This diminutive species is very rare in collections, and has been recorded 

 from only a few localities, in North and South Carolina. A specimen 

 recently received from Young Harris, Georgia, is the first known from 

 that State and extends the known range of the species into the Upper 

 Austral Zone. The tail of this specimen measured (in the ffesh) 32 mm., 

 and the hind foot 10 nun. Another specimen in the Biological Survey, 

 from Bicknell, Indiana, indicates that the species ranges into the Missis- 

 sippi Valley. 



Blarina brevicauda (Say). 



LARGE BLARINA. 



A single specimen of this shrew was taken, July 20, in a wet meadow at 

 Young Harris (altitude 1,900 feet). It is intermediate between brevicauda 

 and carolinensis , but seems nearer to the former. Its skull is about the 

 size of skulls of brevicauda from the District of Columbia, but in external 

 measurements it is somewhat smaller than tliose specimens. 



Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). 



CAROLINA BLARINA. 



Although recorded from both Mississippi* and Texas,! there appears 

 to be no pul)lished record of this shrew from Louisiana. I took four 

 specimens in the State in January, 1908 — three at Natchitoches and one 

 at Mansfield. 



Blarina parva (Say). 



SMALL BLARINA. 



This species apparently ranges quite generally through the Southern 



• N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. H, 1895. 

 f N. Amer. Fauna, No. 25, p. 207, 1905. 



