Fig. 70. SOREX MONTEREYENSIS. 

 No. 221 Pield Columbian Museum Coll. 

 Skull enlarged 2?-^ times. Tootli rows enlarged 6 ti 



platyrhinus, [Otisore.x), DeKay, Zool. N. Y., 1842, i, p. 22, pi. v, 

 fig. I 



haxdeni, Baird, Mamm. N. Am., 1857, p. 29. 



richardsoiii, Dobson, (nee Bach.), Mon. Insectiv. 1890, i, pt. in, 

 pi. xxiii, fig. 9. 



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



Type locality. Eastern United States. 



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

 tains to Tennessee and North Carolina. Not found in southern 

 Rocky Mountains or Cascade-Sierra ranges. 



G(nl. Char. Size small; tail shorter than body; anterior part of 

 rostrum compressed, attenuate; unicuspids decreasing from first to 

 fifth. 



Color. Above sepia brown nii.xed with dark tipped hairs; be- 

 neath ashy gray; tail above, including tip, dusky, beneath whitish, 

 sometimes there is a chestnut phase of pelage. 



Measurements. Total length, 93 106.4; '*'' vertebra', 35.3-42.2; 

 hind foot, 1 1-12.8. 



a.— streatori. (Sore.x), Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1S95, p. 62. 

 7\pe locality. Yakutat, Alaska. 

 Geogr. Distr. Limits of range not known. 



