84 Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society. [Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2. 



and as the skull is still membraneously attached to the skin at the 

 nasal region, all possibility of any substitution by the taxidermist 

 is precluded. The error of identification was presumably made 

 by T. Kumlien in 1884; the Museum possesses no specimen of 

 Microsorex hoyi, and there seems to be no published records of 

 the species in Wisconsin elsewhere than at Racine. 



Public Museum, Milwaukee. 



April 11th, 1911. 



