PARASCALOPS. 



CONDYLURA. 



Skull nat. fize. 



Fig. 80. Parascalops breweri. 



No. 7072 Field Columbian Museum Coll. 



Upper tooth row 2% tiroes nat. size. 



582. breweri. {Scalops), Bachman, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1841, 

 p. 41. 



ameruanus, Coues, (nee Harlan), Am. Nat., 1879, xiii, p. i8g. 



Type locality. Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.'? 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic coast from New Brunswick to North 

 Carolina, West Virginia and southeastern Ohio. Lake Erie and Lake 

 Ontario by St. Lawrence River to Quebec, and possibly to the 

 Atlantic. 



Ge/il. Char. Size moderate; tail short and thick, blunt, densely 

 hairy, constricted at base. Toes not webbed. 



Color. Above dusky brown, beneath grayish. Snout, feet and 

 tail brown, changing to white with age. 



Measurements. Total length, 176.9; tail vertebrae, 30; hind 

 foot, 19. 



101. Condylura. 



I. 3=3. C. t=>; P. i=i; M, 

 3—3 I—' 4—4 



Condylura. Illig. Prodr. Syst. Mamm 

 cristaius, Linn. 

 Rhinaster, Wagl. Nat. Syst. Amphib. , 1830, p. 14. 

 Astromyctcs, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, pp. xxi, 76. 



(nomen nuiluiii.) 

 Astromxiles, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Asiat. Soc. Mus., 1863, p. 87. 

 Skull lengthened; second upper and third lower incisors minute; 

 premolars tricuspidate; molars with broad tridentate internal basal 



3=3 = 44. 

 3—3 ^^ 



i8n, p. 125. Type Sorex 



