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the teeth is scarcely, if at all, more extensive than in the typical 

 race. 



Measurements. — External measurements of type : head and 

 body, 80-5; tail, 44-5; hind foot, 13-6. Average and extremes 

 of eleven specimens from the Bergen district : head and body, 

 78-7 (76-83) ; tail, 49-3 (44-56) ; hind foot, 13-8 (13 -6-14 -4). 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 51. 



Specijnens examined. — Twenty-seven, from the following localities: — 

 Noeway: Vefsen, Nordland, 1; Skjserdal, Nordfjord, 7; Opheim, 



Bergen, 4; Graven, Bergen, 8 (U.S.N.M.) ; near city of Bergen, 7 (B.M. 



and U.S.N.M.). 



Bemarlcs. — This large race of Sorex araneus, closely resembling 

 the large Alpine and Pyrenean forms, but decidedly darker in 

 colour, appears to be strictly confined to the Atlantic slope of 

 western Norway. On the eastern watershed it is replaced by 

 true araneus, even so far north and west as the upper portion of 

 the Gudbrandsdal. I have not seen specimens in full winter 

 pelage, but an adult female taken at Graven on June 10, 1898 

 (No. 84,663, U.S.N.M.), is moulting, the winter fur remaining on 

 posterior half of body. Others taken at the same place and 

 about the same date have completed the change to the short, 

 velvety summer coat. 



1. Vefsen, Nordland, Nor- E. G. B. Meade 5. 7. 1. 2. 



way. Waldo (c & p). 



6, 4 9. Skjserdal, Nordfjord. C. H. Stephenson 8. 1. ,5. 1-5. 



(c & P). 



■2 6,29. Opheim, Bergen. Miller CoUection. 7. 7. 7. 44.53- 



445G. 



6, 2 ?. Bergen. ^Miller Collection. 7. 7. 7. 4457-9. 



?. Bergen, 2,700 ft. G. Barrett-Hamil- 8. 9. 21. 1. 



ton (p). 



SoREX ARANEUS TETRAGONURUS Hermann. 



1780 Sorc.v tetragonurus Hermann in Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch., ii, 

 p. 383 (Strassburg, Germany). 



1792. Sorcx quadricaudatus Kerr, Auim. Kingd., p. 208 (Strassburg, 

 Germany). (Based on Pennant's account of S. tetragomirus 

 Hermann.) 



1835. Sorcv fodiens Duvernoy, Mem. Soc. du I\Ius. d'Hist. Nat., Stras- 

 bourg, II, p. 17. Part : skull, not animal. 



1835. Sorex hermanni Duvernoy, M6m. Soc. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Stras- 

 bourg, II, p. 23 (Near Strassburg, Germany). Part: animal, not 

 skull. 



1857. Sarex vulgaris Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 129 (part). 



1868. ? Sorex aranetis, pallidus Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. kais. Akad. Wis- 

 sensch., Wieu, Math. Naturwiss. Classe, lvii, pt. I, p. 488 

 (Based on specimen from unknown locality, probably in Italy, 

 figured by Bonaparte, Iconogr. Faun. Ital., fasc. xxis, pi., fig. 5.) 



18G9. [Sorex vulgaris'] var. nitda Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, i, p. 127 

 (Bernese Oberland, Switzerland). 



