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those of S. fontinalis. A similar crowding of unicuspid teeth was 

 observed in individuals in both series. Tabulations based on the 

 above-mentioned characters indicate that they are so highly variable 

 that not even a limited correlation with geographic distribution 

 can be discerned. In the light of the present series of specimens it 

 seems clear that the supposed distinctions between Sorex longirostris 

 and S. fontinalis are nothing more than individual variations. 



Lake County: Reelfoot Lake, 2 miles east of Phillippy, 1. 

 Sevier County: Greenbrier, 1. 



SOREX FUMEUS FUMEUS Miller: Smoky Shrew 



Smoky shrews in Tennessee are most frequently found in moist 

 heavy spruce forests in the colder parts of the Transition and Cana- 

 dian Zones. They were trapped in runways in the damp moss at base 

 of balsam fir trees on the west slopes of Mount Guyot and Old Black 

 Mountain. On the west slope of Inadu Kjiob, smoky shrews were 

 caught in the moss on banks of a spring in a balsam-fir forest. They 

 were likewise taken in moss on the west slope of Low Gap, 4l^ miles 

 southeast of Cosby. According to Komarek and Komarek (1938, 

 p. 146), this shrew has been taken at the following localities in Sevier 

 County: Chapman Prong and Eagle Rocks Prong of Little Pigeon 

 River, Dry Sluice (near Mount Collins), and Little River (altitude 

 2,900 feet). A. H. Howell took one on August 21, 1908, near High- 

 clifF in a damp heavily timbered ravine near the base of the north 

 escarpment of Pine Mountain. 



Campbell County: HighclifE, altitude 1,000 feet, 1. 



Cocke County: Mount Guyot, Great Smoky Mountains, altitude 6,300 feet, 1; 

 Old Black Mountain, Great Smoky Mountains, altitude 6,300 feet, 4 ; Inadu 

 Knob, Great Smoky Mountains, altitude 5,700 feet, 2; Low Gap, 41^ miles 

 southeast of Cosby, altitude 3,400 feet, 2. 



Sevier County: Indian Gap, altitude 5,200 feet, 3. 



CRYPTOTIS PARVA (Say): Small Short-tailed Shrew 



Five of these little short-tailed shrews were taken during Novem- 

 ber 1937 by Perrygo and Schaefer in traps set in cotton-rat runways 

 in thickly matted grass and broomsedge growing between the road 

 and a small creek east of Pulaski. Four were trapped in Microtus 

 ochrogaster runways during April and May 1937 in an abandoned 

 alfalfa field on the edge of Reelfoot Lake. Three were trapped by 

 A. H. Howell on one night, all within a few yards of one another, in 

 prairie meadow mouse runways in a patch of dry grass and briers in an 

 old field near Clarksville. Dr. A. R. Cahn submitted for identifica- 

 tion a short-tailed shrew collected on October 18, 1937, at Norris, 

 Anderson County. 



