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These shrews were reported by Komarek and Komarek (1938, 

 p. 147) as having been trapped in Sevier County in fallow fields over- 

 grown with broomsedge at Greenbrier, along Fighting Creek near 

 Gatlinburg, and in the runways of Stone's lemming mouse along Fish 

 Camp Prong of Little River (altitude 2,730 feet). 



Giles County: 6 miles east of Pulaski, 5. 



Lake County: Reelfoot Lake, 3 miles north of Tiptonville, 4. 



Montgomery County: Clarksville, 3. 



BLARINA BREVICAUDA TALPOIDES (Capper): Short-tailed Shrew 



The short-tailed shrew is the largest of the five shrews recorded 

 for the State. It lives in underground burrows and also makes 

 surface runways under matted leaves and decaying vegetation. 

 When hunting for food it frequently uses the runways of other small 

 mammals. Blarinas were caught in the Great Smoky Mountains in 

 large Schuyler traps that had been nailed to the trunks of trees 

 5 or 6 feet above ground. 



At Shady Valley short-tailed shrews were trapped in a bog in 

 which rhododendron and hemlock were growing. On the south- 

 eastern slope of Holston Mountain they were trapped along a small 

 mountain stream in runways under moss in a growth of rhododen- 

 dron and hemlock. On the west slope of Mount Guyot they were 

 taken in a balsam-fir forest and at Low Gap in runways under moss 

 in hemlock. On Snake Den Mountain, blarinas were trapped in 

 runways under moss under mixed deciduous and hemlock trees 

 growing on the banks of a swift-flowing mountain stream. The 

 vertical range of this shrew extends to at least G,300 feet. Komarek 

 and Komarek (1938, p. 147) list specimens from the following local- 

 ities in Sevier County: Fish Camp Prong of Little River, Grassy 

 Patch (on Alum Cave Creek, 2 miles east of The Chimneys, altitude 

 4,000 feet), Greenbrier, Horsehoe Mountain (about 3 miles east of 

 Mount LeConte and li/^ miles north of Mount Kephart), Silers Bald, 

 and Walker Prong of Little River. 



Specimens from eastern Tennessee average somewhat smaller than 

 those taken in eastern and southern West Virginia, but they have a 

 larger hind foot than those referred to carolinensis. Until this genus 

 is revised, this series may be tentatively allocated to taJpoides. From 

 the eastern mountainous section the average measurements of 11 

 males are as follows: Total length, 115.6 (110-125); tail, 23.2 

 (19-27) ; hind foot, 14.7 (13-16). For 9 females from the same area 

 the average measurements are: Total length, 117.2 (108-126); tail,. 

 23.5 (16.5-27) ; hind foot, 15.1 (14-16.5). 



