SHREW 



hind foot, .52 inch. Found in Olympic Mountains, 

 Washington. 



Sierra Nevada Shrew. — Sorex amcenus Merriam. 



Larger than vagrans. Upperparts sooty brown; sides paler 

 brown; underparts buffy whitish; tail above, blackish, 

 below, whitish, tip blackish. Total length, 4.1 inches; tail 

 vertebrae, 1.5 inches; hind foot, .5 inch. Found in Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains of California. 



Vancouver Shrew. — Sorex vancouverensis Merriam. 



Larger than vagrans, with larger forefeet. Upperparts 

 mixed dusky and sepia brown; sides lighter than back; 

 underparts washed with grayish; tail above, dark brown, 

 below paler, tip dark. Total length, 4.2 inches; tail verte- 

 brae, 1.7 inches; hind foot, .48 inch. Found on Vancouver 

 Island, British Columbia. 



Nevada Shrew. — Sorex nevadensis Merriam. 



Resembling vagrans but tail shorter. Upperparts mixed 

 slate-black and hoary; sides lighter, buffy to brownish; 

 underparts hoary; tail bicolor, dusky and whitish, tip dark. 

 Total length, 3.86 inches; tail vertebras, 1.6 inches; hind 

 foot, .5 inch. Found in "Interior of the Great Basin." 

 (Miller) 



Dusky Shrew. — Sorex ohscurus ohscurus Merriam. 



Slightly larger than vagrans; tail longer. Upperparts sepia 

 brown; underparts ashy; tail bicolor, above like back, below 

 whitish. Total length, 4.4 inches; tail vertebree, 1.8 inches; 

 hind foot, .52 inch. Found in "British Columbia' and 

 mountains of western Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyom- 

 ing, Utah, and Colorado; south along the High Sierra 

 Nevada in California to Mount Whitney. Restricted to 

 Boreal Zone." (Merriam) 



Wetmore Shrew. — Sorex ohscurus isolatus Jackson. 



Darker than typical ohscurus. Upperparts (winter) dark 

 grayish brown; underparts smoke-gray; tail faintly bicolor, 

 olive-brown above, buffy brown below. Total length, 4.5 

 inches; tail vertebrae, 2 inches; hind foot, .56 inch. Found 

 on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 



Warren Island Shrew. — Sorex ohscurus malitiosus Jackson. 

 Size large, tail long. Upperparts (summer) mummy- 

 brown, slightly darker on rump; underparts smoke-gray; 

 tail bicolor, sepia above, buffy brown below. Winter pelage 

 darker and grayer. Total length, 5.8 inches; tail vertebrae, 

 2.2 inches; hind foot, .6 inch. Found only on Warren 

 Island, Alaska. 



New Mexico Shrew. — Sorex ohscurus neomexicanus Bailey. 

 Larger and slightly darker than typical ohscurus; upperparts 

 dull sepia brown, with less reddish than in ohscurus; under- 

 parts with brownish suffusion. Total length, 4.6 inches; tail 

 vertebras, 1.6 inches; hind foot, .6 inch. Found in the 

 Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico. 



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