CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 191 



fSorex oreopolus Merriam. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 7 : 173, Sept. 29, 1892. 



-^®^^. Skin and skull. Adult male. North slope of Sierra Nevada 

 45698 



de Colima, altitude about 10,000 feet, Jalisco, Mexico. April 

 22, 1892. Collected by E. W. Nelson. Original number 2517. 

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



fSorex orizabae Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10: 71, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 =Sorcx vagrans orizaltac Merriam. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51 : 113, 



July 24, 1928. 

 53633. Skin and skull. Adult female. Mount Orizaba, altitude 

 9,500 feet on west slope, Puebla, Mexico. April 24, 1893. Col- 

 lected by E. W. Nelson. Original number 4733. 

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



fSorex ornatus Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10 : 79, Dec. 31, 1895. 



?i^. Skin and skull. Adult male. Head of San Emigdio Canyon, 

 43198 ^ *^ 



Mount Pinos, Kern County, Calif. October 19, 1891. Collected 

 by E. W. Nelson. Original number 1328. 

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



*Sorex pachyurus Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 20, 1857. (Not of Kiister, 1835). 

 ^=Sorex arcticus laricorum Jackson. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51: 

 71, July 24, 1928. 



^:^^. Skeleton, formerly in alcohol. Pembina, Pembina County, 



N. Dak. (not Minn, as stated by Baird). Collected by Qiarles 

 Cavileer. Cataloged October 23, 1856. 



Skeleton in fair condition ; all parts of it seem to be present. 



No type designated by Baird, who mentioned throe specimens, the above 

 in alcohol at that time, and two skins, 626 from Pembina, and 638 from 

 Ripley, Minn. As No. 1674 was figured by Baird (pi. 27), it was made the 

 lectotype by Lyon and Osgood, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62 : 247, Jan. 28, 1909. 



*Sorex pacificus Coues. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. 3: 650, May 15, 1877. 

 3266. Skin with fragment of skull inside. Fort Umpqua, mouth of 

 Umpqua River, Douglas County, Oreg. Received from E. P. 

 Vollum. Cataloged in March, 1858. 



Skin in poor condition ; torn about the mouth so as to expose what teeth 

 are present, the unicuspids only ; no filling ; tail not skinned out ; hair 

 everywhere intact. 



