CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 185 



^^^. Skin and skull. Adult female. Sawtooth (also called 

 31678 ^ 



Alturas) Lake, east base of Sawtooth Mountains, altitude about 

 7,200 feet, Blaine County, Idaho. October 3, 1890. Collected 

 by C. Hart Merriam and Vernon Bailey. Original number 1929. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade C. 



f Sorex durangae Jackson. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 38 : 127, Nov. 13, 1925. 

 94540. Skin and skull. Adult male. El Salto, Durango, Mexico. 

 July 19, 1898. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 

 Original number 12774. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



f Sorex emarginatus Jackson. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 38: 129, Nov. 13, 1925. 

 90847. Skin and skull. Young adult female. Sierra jMadre near 

 Bolailos, altitude 7,600 feet, Jalisco, Mexico. September 17, 

 1897. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Original 

 number 11765. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Sorex fimbripes Bachman. 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7 (pt. 2) : 391, 1837. 

 = Sorex cinereus cineretis Kerr. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51 : 40, July 

 24, 1928. 



84556. In alcohol, skull removed. "Was found [by Walter R. 

 Johnson] on the high table-land on a branch of Drury's Run 

 [Pennsylvania], a tributary of the west bank of the Susquehanna 

 River" (Bachman, 1837: 394). 



Condition of the specimen poor ; most of the hair on the posterior half 

 of body lacking; skull Grade A. 



Found in the collection in the early part of 1898 in a bottle with an 

 old-style Museum label, without number, tied around the top, bearing the 

 inscription "Sorex fimbripes (type)." Tied to the specimen itself is an 

 old parchment label that originally bore the words "Sorex fimbripes. 

 Type." The writing was perfectly legible, but very faint, when examined 

 l>y Lyon and Osgood in 1908. In 1936 only the word "type" remained 

 legible. The parchment has to be dried in order to read it. On April 

 29, 1898, this specimen was entered in the Museum catalog and given its 

 present number, 84556. No original data accompany the specimen. The 

 hand writing on the old Museum label and on the parchment tag is 

 unidentifiable ; both labels were obviously written many years before 1898. 



f Sorex fisheri Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10 : 86, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 =Sorex longirostris fisheri Merriam. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51 : 87, 

 Julv 24. 1928. 



