CONDVLURA. 



ledge; anterior nares directed obliquely upward; bulla- incomplete; 

 palate abbreviated posteriorly; tail long, scaly; fore fett broad, pos- 

 sessing an OS falciforme: hind feet elontjate; nostrils encompassed by 

 large radiating; tactile processes. 



Fig. 81. CONDYLURA CRISTATA. 



No. 377 Field Columbian Museum Coll. 



Skull enlarged ^ nat, size. Tooth rows cnlarf^ed = times. 



583. cristata. {Sorex), Linn. Syst. Nat., 1758, p. 53. 



!on,i;iCititJit, Erxl. Syst. Nat., 1797, p. 18. 



canadensis, De la Faille, Naturg. Maulw., 1778, p. 3, t. i. 



radiata, Shaw, Gen. Zool. Mamm., 1800, i, p. 523. 



tnacroura, Harl. Faun. Amer., 1825, p. 36. 



prasinata, Harris, Bost. Journ. Phil. & Arts, 1825, p. 582. 



Type locality. Pennsylvania. 



Geogr. Distr. Hudson Bay to Manitoba, south to Minnesota on 

 the west, and on the .Atlantic coast to South Carolina in the Alle- 

 ghanies. 



Genl. Char. "Size moderate; nasal cutaneous processes 22 in 

 number, 18 marginal, and 2 pairs on nasal disk. Feet scaly; tail 

 scaly, three-fourths as long as body, covered with scattered hairs, 

 enlarged in winter, with a constricted base." 



Color. Above dusky brown or blackish, beneath paler and grayer 

 on sides of throat and on chin. Feet dusky. Tail blackish, slightly 

 paler beneath. 



Measurements. Average total length of 21 specimens, 170; tail 

 vertebrae, 71.8; hind foot and claw, 27.1. 



