162 Copeland — Notes on the Mammal* of Mi. Greylock, Mass. 



Sorex fumeus. 



Five smoky shrews were taken at "High Bridge" by the edge ot the 

 stream along which woodland jumping mice occurred in abundance. A 

 single specimen was caught in swampy woods, where Sorex digpar was 

 found. 



Mr. William Dearden secured two specimens on the summit. One of 

 these, which is in the Museum of Natural History at Springfield, Mass., 

 I have had the opportunity to examine through the kindness of the 

 curator. 



The examples here noted, constitute, I believe, the first records for the 

 State 



Sorex dispar. 



Two specimens of this rare shrew were obtained, the first recorded from 

 New England. One was trapped under a rock at the edge of a moist 

 grassy clearing, surrounded by woods, at an altitude of :!000 feet. A 

 brook, which had been dammed to form a shallow pond, flowed through 

 this little meadow, which was inhabited by several species of mice and 

 shrews. 



The second specimen was taken at a slightly lower altitude in swampy 

 woods of spruce, hemlock and scattered birches thickly carpeted with 

 sphagnum. A small brook ran through the woods, and near it the shrew 

 was trapped in a runway beneath a log. 



Both specimens agree perfectly with the type in the Batchelder col- 

 lection. 



Blarina brevicauda talpoides. 



The short-tailed shrew is one of the most abundant mammals on the 

 mountain, and twenty-rive were taken. It was found in nearly every 

 region trapped. 



