Order IX. Insectivora. The Insectivores. 



Family I. l^oriciflie. Shrews. 



Subfamily I. Soricinse. 

 Genus 143. Sorex. Common Shrews. 



Sorex Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 53; i, 1766, p. 73. Type Sorex 

 araneus Linnaeus. 



1071. Sorex personatus I. Geoff. St. Hilaire. 



Sorex personatus L Geoff. St. Hil., Mem. du Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



XV, 1827, pp. 122-125. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., II, 1901, p. 366. Zool. Ser. 

 Sorex jorsteri Rich., Zool. Joum., iii, 1828, p. 516. 

 Sorex cooperi Bachm., Joum. Acad. Natl Scien. Phil., 1837, p. 388, 



pi. XXIV, fig. 7. 

 Sorex fimbripes Bachm., Joum. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 



p. 391, pi. XXIV, fig. 8. 

 Amphisorex lesueuri Duvem., Mag. Zool., Mamm., 1842, p. 33, 



pi. L. 

 Sorex platyrhynchus Linsley, Sillim. Am. Joum. Scien., xliii, 1842, 



p. 346. 

 Otisorex platyrhinus DeKay, Zool. N. Y., i, 1842, p. 22, pi. v, 



fig: I- 



Sorex haydeni Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 29. 



Sorex richardsoni Dobson, Mon. Insectiv., i, Pt. iii, 1890, pi. xxiii, 

 fig. 9. (nee Bachm.) 



Sorex idahoensis Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 5, 1891, p. 32. 

 Masked Shrew. 



Type locality. Eastern United States. 



Geogr. Distr. New England to Alaska and south in high moun- 

 tains to Tennessee and North Carolina. Not found in the southern 

 Rocky Mountains or in the Cascade or Sierra Ranges. 



a. Sorex personatus streatori Merriam. 



Sorex personatus streatori Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 62. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 367. 

 Zool. Ser. 

 Streator's Shrew. 



Type locality. Yakutat, Alaska. 

 Geogr. Distr. Range unknown. 



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