382 BLARINA. 



Cryptotis. Pomel, Archiv. Scien. Phys. and Nat., Geneve, 1848, 



p. 249. 

 Anotus. Wagn. Supp. Schreb. Saugth., 1855, p. 550. 

 Sorieiscus. Coues, Bull. U. S. Gaol, and Geog. Surv. , 1877, 



p. 649. 

 Ear conch truncated above; tail short; fourth upper incisor rudi- 

 mentary or absent; first and second unicuspids largest, subequal; 

 middle incisor with elongate basal lobe; brain case highest at lamb, 

 doidal suture. 



Fig. 74. Blarina brevicauda. 



No. 3583 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll. 

 Skull twice nat. size. Tooth rows 4 times nat. size. 



567. brevicauda. (Sorex), Say in Long's Exped. Rocky Mts. , vol. i, 



1823, p. 164. 

 talpoidcs. Gapper, Zool. Jour., 1830, v, p. 202, pi. viii. 

 dekayi, Bach. Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, vii, p. 377. 

 micritra, Pomel, Archiv. Scien. Phys. et Nat. Geneve, 1848, 



p. 249. 

 angusticefs, Baird, Mamm. N. Am., 1857, p. 47. 

 costaricensis, Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1891, p. 205 



(not from Costa Rica). 

 Type locality. Near Blair, three miles above mouth of Boyer 

 River, Nebraska. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic coast to Nebraska, and Manitoba. 



