CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 197 



^Sorex vagrans Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 15, 1857. 

 1675. In alcohol. Adult male. Slioalwater Bay, Pacific County, 

 Wash. Received from J. G. Cooper. Cataloged October 23, 

 1856. 



Specimen entirely devoid of hair, otherwise its preservation is good. 

 The skull has not been removed (the skull of a paratype is therefore prob- 

 ably the one that Baird figured), but the lips have been loosened in order 

 to expose the teeth. 



No type designated. Baird had seven specimens from four different 

 localities. Specimen 1675 having been figured on Baird's plate 26, Lyon 

 and Osgood, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62: 251, Jan. 28, 1909, made it the 

 lectotype. 



f Sorex vagrans similis Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 5: 34, July 30, 1891. (Not Sorex similis Hensel, 1855.) 

 =Sorex ohsourus Merriam. See Merriam, North Amer. Fauna 10: 72, Dec. 

 31, 1895. 



??^. Skin and skull. Adult female. Near Timber Creek, altitude 

 30943 ' 



8,200 feet, Salmon River Mountains (now Lemhi Mountains) , 10 

 miles west of Junction, Lemhi County, Idaho. August 26, 1890. 

 Collected by Vernon Bailey and B. H. Dutcher. Original num- 

 ber 1670. 

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



t Sorex vancouverensis Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10 : 70, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 —Sorex vagrans vaitcoiivcrensis Merriam. See Jackson, North Amer. Fauna 

 51 : 106, July 24, 1928. 



71913. Skin and skull. Adult male. Coldstream, Vancouver Is- 

 land, British Columbia, Canada. May 10, 1895. Collected by 

 C. P. Streator. Original number 4592. 

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



f Sorex veraepacis chiapensis Jackson. 



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

 75877. Skin and skull. Adult female. San Cristobal, altitude 

 9,500 feet, Chiapas, Mexico. October 1, 1895. Collected by 

 E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Original number 8528. 

 Well-made skin ; skull Grade A. 



t Sorex yaquinae Jackson. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 31 : 127, Nov. 29, 1918. 

 73051. Skin and skull. Adult female. Yaquina Bay, Lincoln 

 County, Oreg. July 18, 1895. Collected by B. J. Bretherton. 

 Original nmnber 2031. 

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



