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t*Microsorex winnemana Preble. 



1910. Microsorex winnemana Preble, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 23, p. 101. June 24, 1910. 



Type Locality. — Bank of Potomac River, near Stubblefield 

 Falls, Fairfax Coiint}^, Virginia. 



Genus BLARINA Gray.^ 



1838. Blarina Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 124. 

 Type, Sorex talvoides Gapper. 



*Blarina brevicauda brevicauda (Say). 



1823. Sorex hrevicaudus Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. 1, 

 p. 164. 



1857. Blarina hrevicauda Baird, Mamm. N. Amer., p. 42. 



1885. Blarina brevicauda True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 

 (1884), p. 606. 1885. 



Type Locality. — West bank of Missouri River, near Blair, 

 formerly Engineer Cantonment, Washington County, Ne- 

 braska. 



Range. — Upper Austral and Transition zones, from western 

 Nebraska and Manitoba eastward to the Atlantic Coast, 

 penetrating a short distance into lower edge of boreal.^ 



Blarina brevicauda aloga Bangs. 



1902. Blarina brevicauda aloga Bangs, Proc. New Englainl 



Zool. Club, vol. 3, p. 76, March 31, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — West Tisbury, Marthas Vmeyard, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Blarina brevicauda compacta Bangs. 



1902. Blanna brevicauda compacta Bangs, Proc. New England 



Zool. Club, vol. 3, p. 77, March 31, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. 



*Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). 



1837. Sorex carolinensis Bachman, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelpliia, vol. 7, pt. 2, p. 366. 

 1895. Blarina brevicauda carolinensis Merriam, North Amer. 



Fauna, No. 10, p. 13. Doeembor 31, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern South Carolina. 

 Range. — Austroriparian fauna from the mouth of Chesapeake 



Bay to Arkansas. 



1 Revised by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, pp. 9-lC, Decembor 31, 1895. 



2 The animal occurring east of the Mississippi is now recognized as distinct under the name B. brevicauda 

 talpoides. 



