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southern Utah, and in Rocky Mountains to northern New Mexico and west- 

 central Arizona; south through Cascade Mountains of Oregon; and in Sierra 

 Nevada of California from Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, south to Whitney 

 Meadows, Tulare County, also White Mountains, Mono and Inyo Counties, 

 Warner Mountains of eastern Modoc County, Salmon Mountains in Trinity 

 County, and Yolla Bolly Mountains in Trinity and Tehama Counties (Grinnell, 

 Univ. California Publ. Zool, vol. 40, No. 2, p. 84, Sept. 26, 1933). 



Sorex palustris brooksi Anderson 



1934. Sorex palustris brooksi Anderson, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 48, No. 8, 

 p. 134, Nov. 1, 1934. 



Type Locality.~B\ack Creek, Comox district, east coast of Vancouver Island, 

 British Columbia, Canada. Altitude, 150 feet. Range. — Southern Vancouver 

 Island and lake district near Victoria. 



Sorex alaskanus Merriamf* 



1900. Sorex navigator alaskanus Merriam, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 

 2, p. 18, Mar. 14, 1900. 



1926. Sorex alaskanus Jackson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 7, No. 1, p. 58, Feb. 15, 

 1926. 



Type Locality. — Point Gustavus, on east side of entrance to Glacier Bay, 

 Alaska. Range. — Known from type locality only. 



Subgenus ATOPHYRAX Merriam 



1884 Atophyrax Merriam, Trans. Linn. Soc. New York, vol. 2, p. 217, Au- 

 gust 1884. (Type, Atophyrax bendirii Merriam.) 



Sorex bendirii bendirii (Merriam) f* 



1884. Atophyrax bendirii Merriam, Trans. Linn. Soc. New York, vol. 2, p. 217, 

 August 1884. 



1884. Atophyrax bendirei True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 606, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1890. Sorex bendirii Dobson, A monograph of the Insectivora . . ., pt. 3, fasc. 

 1, pi. 23, fig. 17 and explanation. 



Type Locality. — Near Williamson River, 18 miles southeast of Fort Klamath, 

 Klamath County, Oreg. Range. — Extreme southwestern British Columbia at 

 Chilliwack, Cultus Lake, Huntington, and Port Moody (Anderson, Nat. Mus. 

 Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 22, Jan. 24, 1947), south through southern Cas- 

 cades and lowlands of western Washington, exclusive of Olympic Peninsula 

 (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 144, Apr. 9, 1948) ; in- 

 terior southwestern Oregon; and coast region of California from about lat. 41° 

 N. south nearly to Bodega Bay. 



Sorex bendirii palmeri Merriamf* 



1895. Sorex bendirii palmeri Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 10, p. 97, 

 Dec. 31, 1895. 



Type Locality. — Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon. Range. — Northwestern 

 Oregon west of Cascade Mountains, southwestern Oregon west of long. 123° W., 

 and extreme northwestern California north of mouth of Klamath River. 



