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Greenbrier County: Jobs Knob, 13 miles north-northwest of Renicks Valley, 



altitude 4,338 feet, 2. 

 Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 7. 

 Randolph County: Cheat Bridge, altitude 3,900 feet, 6. 



SOREX DISPAR Batchelder 



Gray Long-tailed Shrew 



A male of this species was taken by A. H. Howell in July 1909 in 

 the southern part of the State on the cool north slope of a canyon 

 forested with hemlock and deciduous trees. Further collecting may 

 show that this shrew occurs in the eastern part of the State. 



Raleigh County: Winding Gulf, 4 miles southwest of Pemberton, altitude 



2,000 feet, 1. 



SOREX FUMEUS FUMEUS Miller 



Smoky Shrew 



Smoky shrews are most plentiful in the colder parts of the Transi- 

 tion and Canadian Zones in West Virginia. In the eastern part of 

 the State they were foimd to be fairly common in the higher altitudes 

 where the forest had not been burned over recently. These shrews 

 were trapped by Perrygo and Lingebach only in wet boggy places and 

 along the banks of streams. They were frequently taken in Microtus 

 runways. Jackson (1928, p. 64) has commented on the shallow brain 

 cases of some of the five specimens taken at Travellers Repose, He 

 found, however, that other individuals from the same and nearby 

 localities have high brain cases. The color shows no peculiarities. 



Average measurements of seven males: Total length, 114 (1 10-120) ; 

 tail, 46 (41-51); hind foot, 14.1 (13-15). Average measurements of 

 nine females: Total length, 117 (110-132); tail, 46.5 (42-48); hind 

 foot, 13.6 (12-15). 



Greenbrier County: White Sulphur Springs, 1. 



Pendleton County: Franklin, 1; Spruce Knob, altitude 4,860 feet, 1. 



Pocahontas County: Cranberry Glades, altitude 3,300 feet, 9; Travellers 



Repose, 5. 

 Raleigh County: Winding Gulf, 4 miles southwest of Pemberton, 2. 

 Randolph County: Cheat Mountain, 3 miles west of Cheat Bridge, altitude 3,900 



feet, 1. 

 It has been reported (F. E. Brooks, 1911, p. 28) also from French 

 Creek, Upshur County ; Terra Alta, Preston County ; and Pickens and 

 Osceola, Randolph County. 



[SOREX PALUSTRIS subsp. 7] 



Water Shrew 



Small mammals, locally known as water ground moles, were reported 

 by Fred T. Galford, an employee of the E.C.W. at Camp Black Moun- 

 tain, to occur along the head waters of Williams River at an altitude 

 of 3,300 feet. They were described by Galford as diving into streams 



