Vol. X, pp. 133-134 December 8, 1896 



PROCEEDINGS 

 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



AN UNDESCRIBED SHREW OF THE GENUS SOITE^ ^ y 

 BY CHARLES F. BATCHELDER. 



On September 9, 1895, at Beede's, Essex count}^ New York, 

 I obtained a Sbrew unlike any species known to me. It was 

 caught in one of several ' c3'clone ' traps, baited with rolled oat- 

 meal, that were set among some large, angular rocks at the head 

 of a wooded talus of loose rock. Just al)Ove, shading the spot 

 and keeping it moist and cool, rise the low cliffs from whose frag- 

 ments the talus has been formed. 



Nearly a year later, on August 1, 1896, 1 caught a second speci- 

 men of this Shrew on Movnit ^larcy, the highest of the Adiron- 

 dack Mountains. It, too, was caught with oatmeal in a ' cj' clone ' 

 trap. It was taken in a crevice between some rocks, on the bare, 

 open summit of the mountain, about 5300 feet above sea-level. 

 The locality where the first one was captured is about eight miles 

 distant, in an air line, and lies at an elevation of only 1300 feet 

 above the sea. 



I have compared this Shrew with other species of the genus 

 Sorex (the material for comparison I owe in some cases to the 

 unfailing kindness of Dr. C. Hart Merriam), and find it so dif- 

 ferent from them all that I am led to descri])e it as follows : 



Sorex macrurus sp. nov. 



Type from Beede's [sometimes called Keene Heights], in the township 

 of Keene, Essex county, New York ; taken September 9, 1895. The 

 type is a young adult male, No. 1384, collection of C. F. Batchelder. 



General characters. — Size large ; tail long; body stout. 



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