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another tree, perhaps thirty feet away, with the young one in her mouth, 

 and ran up the tree to, perhaps a height of fifty feet, where she found 

 a knot-hole into which she carried the young. In a moment she reap- 

 peared and flew back to the snag after the other young. I had, in the 

 meantime, stationed myself by the young, ready to catch the old one 

 when she came to seize it. After several advances and retreats, she finally 

 came and seized it in her mouth and was putting up the snag when I 

 caught her. 



On December 16, 1890, I received three live ones from Burlington, Car- 

 roll county, that had been caught by J. M. Beck. In felling a tree he 

 found a family of six, -three of which he caught and sent to me. 

 Randolph county. Mr. Cox reports it not so common as it was form- 

 erly. He says that on Thanksgiving day, a few years ago, he found 

 fifteen in a small rotten stump, a little higher than a man's head. 

 Wabash county (Ulrey). This squirrel makes a very interesting pet. 

 Franklin county. Very abundant in Franklin county. They breed 

 during the sugar making season in early spring. It is remarkable 

 what a number of these animals can be found by going from snag 

 to snag and pounding upon it at that time of the year. I have found 

 their nests in woodpecker's holes in tall sycamores and in various 

 buildings, including dwellings. 

 La Grange county (Steininger). 



27. Blarina brevicauda Say . Mole- shrew. 

 Carroll, Monroe and Vigo counties. 

 Tippecanoe county. (Reynolds' collection.) 



I have seen a good many of these shrews in Monroe county, and a few in 

 Carroll and Vigo. On two orcasions I put a shrew and a white-footed 

 mouse in the same tin can, with the same result each time — the shrew ate 

 the mouse (Evermann). 



La Grange county (Steininger). 



Franklin county. Common. 



See my paper "On Indiana Shrews," Proc. Ind. Academy of Science 

 1891, pp. 161-3, for an account of the insects that were found by Chas. 

 Dury in a nest of this species. (Butler). 



Vigo county. One specimen, spring 1891. 



Randolph county, 1891 (Cox). 



28. Blarina exilipes ( Baird ) . 



I have seen but four specimens of this little shrew, all of which were 



