General Notes. 99 



Pemberton, Raleigh County, at an altitude of about 2,200 feet. Thesteep 

 slope of the canon is heavily forested with hemlock and a variety of 

 deciduous trees, with a dense undergrowth of rhododendron, striped 

 maple (Acer pennsylvanicum) , purple-flowering raspberry (Rubacer odo- 

 ratum) and other shrubs. The soil is wet and spongy, with a carpet of 

 mosses and ferns growing among rocks and bowlders. On this cool, wet, 

 Transition Zone hillside I found shrews very abundant, taking in one 

 nighl '.* Blarina brevicauda, 3 Surer fumeus and 1 Sorex dispar. The 

 latter appears to lie in every way identical with specimens taken by Dr. 

 Mearns in the Catskill Mts., New York. It is an adult male and meas- 

 ured in the flesh: total length, 131 mm.; tail vertebrae, 62mm.; hind 

 foot, 14mm. — Arthur If. Howell. 



