NEOSOREX. 



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94. Neosorex. 



C. 1=^; P. 2=?; M. 5=3 = 32. 

 0—0' I— i' 3—1 ->^ 



Neosorex. Baird, Mamm. N. Am., 1857, p. 11. Ty/rc Neoscrex navi. 

 gator, Baird. 



Inner side of canines and incisors without secondary cusps; 

 fourth upper incisor well developed, brain case broad; mandible 

 slender and lightly built; feet fringed with bristle-like hairs. 



Fig. 72. Neosorex palustrius. 



No. 2532 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll. 

 Skull twice nat. size. Tooth rows enlarged 5 times. 



563. palustris. {Sorex), Richardson, Zool. Journ., vol. iii, 1828, 



P- 571- 



Type locality. Marshy places between Hudson Bay to Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Geogr. Distr. Central Minnesota to east base of Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



Genl. Char. Same as those of the subgenus. 



Color. Above seal brown and hoary; fur at base slate gray; 

 belly pale smoke gray, sometimes tinged with cream color; feet 

 sepia; tail above and at tip seal brown, beneath pale smoke gray. 



Measurements. Total length, 157; tail vertebrre, 68; hind foot, 20. 



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