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Type locality. — Roan Mountain, Mitchell County, N. C. Altitude, about 6,000 

 feet. Range. — Presumably higher portions of Appalachian Mountains in west- 

 ern North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. (Specimens from mountainous parts 

 of eastern Tennessee regarded as churchi by Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 25, p. 328, Dec. 5, 1952.) 



Blarina brevicauda minima Lowery* 



1943. Blarina brevicauda minima Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana 

 State Univ. No. 13, p. 218, Nov. 22, 1943. 



Type Locality. — Comite River, 13 miles northeast of Baton Rouge, East Baton 

 Rouge Parish, La. Range. — Extreme lower Mississippi River Valley and central 

 Gulf coast region. Recorded also from Joaquin and Big Thicket, 8 miles north- 

 east of Sour Lake in eastern Texas (Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 25, p. 329, Dec. 5, 1952) . 



Blarina brevicauda hulophaga Elliot* 



1899. Blarina brevicauda hulophaga Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 38, 

 Zool. Ser., vol. 1, p. 287, May 25, 1899. 



Type Locality. — Dougherty, Murray County, Okla. Range. — From Dough- 

 erty, Murray County, central southern Oklahoma, northeast at least as far as 

 Tulsa, Okla. (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, 

 No. 6, p. 108, Sept. 11, 1942.) 



Blarina brevicauda plumbea Davis 



1941. Blarina brevicauda plumbea Davis, Journ. Mamm., vol. 22, No. 3, 

 p. 317, Aug. 14, 1941. 



Type Locality. — Half mile west of Marano Mill, Aransas County, Tex. 

 Range. — Known from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Aransas County, 

 Tex., only. 



Blarina telmalestes Merriamf* 



1895. Blarina telmalestes Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 10, p. 15, Dec. 31, 

 1895. 



Type Locality. — Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Norfolk County, Va. 

 Range. — Dismal Swamp of extreme southeastern Virginia. 



Blarina costaricensis J. A. Allen 



1891. Blarina costaricensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, 

 p. 205, Apr. 17, 1891. (Regarded by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 10, 

 p. 10, Dec. 31, 1895, as identical with brevicauda, but this determination 

 was questioned by J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 34, 

 Mar. 11, 1897. See also, Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus., 

 vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 112-113, Sept. 11, 1942.) 

 Type locality. — La Carpintera, Costa Rica or upper Mississippi Valley (see 

 Merriam, op. cit., p. 12). 



Genus CRYPTOTIS' Pomel 



1848. Cryptotis Pomel, Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Geneve, vol. 9, p. 249, Nov. 1848. 

 (Type, Sorex cinercus Bachman = Sorex parvus Say.) 



'Revised by Merriam, under the name Blarina, North Amer. Fauna No. 10, pp. 16-31. 

 Dec. 31, 1895. 



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