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Type Locality. — Vicinity of Nipe Bay, Oriente, northeastern Cuba. Range. — 

 Mountains of northeastern Cuba; recorded also from Sierra de Toar and near 

 Nabuiabo swamp between Baracoa and Duaba. 



Superfamily SORICOIDEA 



Family Soricidae (shrews) 



Subfamily soricinae 



Genus SOREX 6 Linnaeus 

 1758. Sorex Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 53. (Type, Sorex 

 araneus Linnaeus.) 



Subgenus SOREX Linnaeus 



cinereus — gro up 

 Sorex cinereus cinereus Kerr* 



1792. Sorex arcticus cinereus Kerr, The animal kingdom . . ., p. 206. 



1827. Sorex personatus I. Geoflroy-Saint-Hilaire, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 



vol. 15, p. 122. (Eastern United States.) 

 1884. Sorex platyrhinus and Sorex cooperi True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



( App., Circ. 29) , p. 606, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1891. Sorex idahoensis Merriamf, North Amer. Fauna No. 5, p. 32, July 30, 



1891. (Timber Creek, Lemhi Mountains ["Salmon River Mountains"], 



Lemhi County, Idaho.) 



1925. Sorex cinereus cinereus Jackson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 56, 

 Feb. 9, 1925. 



1926. Sorex jrankstounensis Peterson, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 16, p. 292, 

 March 1926. (Frankstown Cave, near Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa.) 



Type Locality. — Fort Severn (Severn Settlement, now Severn), mouth of 

 Severn River, southwest side of Hudson Bay, Ontario, Canada. Range. — Que- 

 bec from Chimo and western end of Gulf of St. Lawrence west, the whole of 

 Ontario, eastern and northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, northern and 

 western Alberta, and Northwest Territories to northern limit of trees, central 

 and southern Yukon (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 14, Jan. 

 24, 1947) ; and east-central Alaska, south to New Jersey, New York, mountains 

 of West Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, northern half of lower penin- 

 sula of Michigan (Burt, Mammals of Michigan, p. 93, 1946), and through 

 mountains of western Montana and western Wyoming to northern New Mexico, 

 and to northeastern and central Washington. 



Sorex cinereus miscix Bangs* 



1899. Sorex personatus miscix Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 1, 



p. 15, Feb. 28, 1899. 

 1928. Sorex cinereus miscix Jackson, North Amer. Fauna No. 51, p. 50, July 24, 



1928. 

 Type Locality. — Black Bay, Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador. Range. — Labrador 

 south of lat. 58° N.; west in Quebec along north shore of Gulf of St. Lawrence 



"Revised by Jackson, North Amer. Fauna No. 51, pp. 30-200, July 24, 1928. 



