CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 195 



75885. Skin and skull. Adult female. San Cristobal, altitude 

 9,000 feet, Chiapas, Mexico. September 25, 1895. Collected by 

 E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Original number 8473. 



Well-made skin in good condition except right front foot missing; skull 

 Grade A. 



*Sorex suckleyi Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 18, 1857. 

 =SoreiV vagrans vagrans Baird. See Merriam, North Amer. Fauna 10: 67, 

 Dec. 31, 1895. 



1677. In alcohol. Fort Steilacoom, Pierce County, Wash., 1856. 

 Collected by George Suckley. Northern Pacific K. R. Survey. 



Specimen is in fair condition ; some hair has fallen from the back. The 

 skull has not been removed (and the skull of a para type is the one probably 

 figured), but the lips have been cut loose and the head skinned out so 

 that all the teeth may be seen. 



Baird had seven specimens from four different localities. The descrip- 

 tion is based upon Nos. 362 and 1677, the second of which was made lectotype 

 by Lyon and Osgood, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62: 250, Jan. 28, 1900, because 

 it is figured on Baird's plate 27. 



f Sorex tenellus Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10 : 81, Dec. 31, 1895. 



^^^. Skin and skull. Adult, sex undetermined. Along Lone Pine 

 32495 ° 



Creek, at upper edge of Alabama Hills at about 5,000 feet, near 



Lone Pine, Owens Valley, Inyo County, Calif. December 22, 



1890. Collected by E. W. Nelson. Original number 131. 



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



f Sorex tenellus lyelli Merriam. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washinuton 15: 75, Mar. 22, 1902. 

 —Sorex lyelli Merriam. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51 : 57, July 24, 1928. 



109530. Skin and skull. Young adult male. Mount Lyell, 

 Tuolumne County, Calif. August 29, 1901. Collected by W. K. 

 Fisher. Original number 2275. 



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



t Sorex tenellus myops Merriam. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15 : 76, Mar. 22, 1902. 

 —Sorex myops Merriam. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 51 : 173, July 24, 1928. 



?^. Skin and skull. Adult female. Pipers Creek (Cottonwood 



Creek), near main peak of White Mountain, altitude 9,500 feet, 

 Mono County, Calif. July 13, 1891. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 

 Original number 1101. 



Well-made skin ; tail complete, but detached at base ; skull Grade A. 

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