HEDGEHOGS AND SHREWS OF TURKEY — OSBORN 557 



The external measurements of my specimens of S. minutus together 

 with those from the British Museum collection are listed in table 1. 

 The size of the Burnlik specimens of S. minutus approaches that of 

 S. araneus but dental characters show that these specimens are S. 

 minutus. 



Table 1. — External measurements of Sorex minutus /rom Turkey 



S. minutus was trapped near Mereyem Ana in burrows in the dense 

 leaf mold under rhododendron, beside holes between rocks under the 

 same cover, and in a spruce forest. At Biirniik I caught this shrew 

 in a dense stand of fu". 



The localities of collection indicate that this shrew could have 

 moved into Anatolia either from the Balkans via Thrace or from the 

 Caucasus. 



Sorex araneus Linnaeus 



Sharp-nosed mouse of the forest (sivri burunlu orman faresi), 

 common shrew. 



The range of this shrew is approximately that of S. minutus, except 

 that it has penetrated into drier and colder habitats than the latter. 



S. araneus has been collected near Miusaret, Kars district, eastern 

 AnatoHa (see reference in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). 

 Thomas (1913) recorded the species from "Sumela, thirty miles south 

 of Trebizond 1,000-1,300 m." I collected seven specimens from this 

 same location, which is now called Mereyem Ana. A single specimen 

 was collected on Ulu Dag in western Anatolia at about 1400 meters 

 elevation (fig. 2). 



S. araneus was trapped along with S. minutus in burrows under 

 rhododendron, in spruce forest near a large rock-outcropping, and 



