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Genus BLARINA Gray." (Short-tailed shrews.) 



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

 Type, Sorex talpoides Gapper. 



*Blarina brevicauda brevicauda (Say). 



1823. Sorex hrevicaudvs Say, Long's Expcd. Rocky Mts., vol. 1, 

 p. 164. 



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



1885. Blarina hrevicauda True, Proc. LT. 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, pene- 

 trating a short distance into lower edge of boreal. [The 

 animal occurring east of the Mississippi is now recognized as 

 distinct under the name B. hrevicauda talpoides.] 



*Blarina brevicauda aloga Bangs. 



1902. Blarina hrevicauda aJoga Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. 



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

 Type Locality. — West Tisbury, island * of Marthas Vineyard, 

 Dukes County, Massachusetts. 



*Blarina brevicauda compacta Bangs. 



1902. Blarina brevicauda compacta Bangs, Proc. New England 



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

 Type Locality. — Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



*Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). 



1837. Sorex carolinensis Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

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



1895. Blarina hrevicauda carolinensis Merriam, North Amer. 

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



Type Locality. — Eastern South Carolina. 



Range. — Austroriparian fauna from the mouth of Chesapeake 

 Bay to Arkansas. 



t*Blarina brevicauda peninsulse (Merriam). 



1895. Blarina carolinensis peninsulse Merriam, North Amer. 



Fauna, No. 10, p. 14. December 31, 1895. 

 1897. [Blarina hrevicauda] peninsvlx Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. 



viv. foss., pt. 1, p. 188. 

 Type Locality. — ^Miami River, Dade County, Florida. 

 Range. — Peninsula of Florida, south of latitude 28°. 



" Revised by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, pp. &-16, Dec. 31, 1895. 



