vagrans similis, Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 5, 1891, pp. 34-35, pi. 

 iv, fig. 3. (nee Hensel.) 



Type locality. Timber Creek, Salmon River Mountains, Idaho 

 (8,200 feet). 



Gi'ogr. Distr. British Columbia, and Mountains of western 

 Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado; south 

 in California to Mt. Whitney. 



Genl. Char. Similar to 6'. vagrans, but slightly larger with the 

 skull and mandible conspicuously larger and heavier. 



Color. Above sepia brown tinged with pale rufous. Under parts 

 drab gray tinged with buff. Tail above sepia brown, below drab 

 gray. 



Measurements. Total length, 102-iig; tail vertebras, 39-53.9; hind 

 foot, 12. 5-13. 8. 



a. — lon^icaicdus, (Sorex), Merr. N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 74. 



Ty/>e locality. Wrangel, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. "Coast of southeast Alaska from Wrangel south- 

 ward; also coast of Washington, including Puget Sound and Skagit 

 Valley." 



Genl. Char. Similar to S. bairdi in color, length of tail and ex- 

 ternal appearance; similar to 5". ohscurus in cranial and dental char- 

 acters. 



Color. Above dark chestnut brown; beneath buffy ash, suffused 

 with pale chestnut brown on the belly. Tail dark brown above, 

 buffy below. 



Measurements. Average of 27 specimens from Wrangel, Alaska. 

 Total length, 128.8; tail vertebra:, 58.1; hind foot, 15.5. (Mer- 

 riam, 1. c.) 



549. glacialis. {Sorc.x), Merr.,Proc. Wash. Acad. Scien., 1900, p. 16. 



Type locality. Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay, Alaska. 



Genl. Char. Similar to S. o. longicaudus, but smaller and darker. 



Color. Above dusky brown; beneath whitish. Tail above and 

 tip brownish dusky, below buffy. 



Measurements. Total length, 122; tail vertebrae, 52; hind foot, 14. 



fe. — alascensis. Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 76. 



Type locality. Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. Juneau to Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail medium, about equal to body with- 

 out head; hind foot nearly 15. 



Color. Above sepia brown mixed with light tipped hairs; be- 

 neath ash gray, the plumbeous showing through. Tail above dark 

 brown, below whitish. 



