MAMMALS 



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B. b. aloga Bangs. Smaller and paler ; color brownish drab : Marthas 

 Vineyard. 



B. b. com pacta Bangs. Color slaty gray; tail unicolor: Nantucket. 



B. b. carolinensis (Bachman). Size smaller: southern States from 

 Indiana and Maryland to Arkansas and Florida. 



B. b. hulophaga Elliot. Smaller, hghter in color and with an 

 extremely short tail: Oklahoma. 



B. b. peninsula; Merriam. Color more slaty; 

 hind feet longer: Florida south of latitude 28. 



B. b. talpoides (Gapper). Northeastern and 

 central States; westward to the Mississippi; south- 

 ward to Georgia and Tennessee. 



B. telmalestes Merr. Similar to B. brevicauda 

 but more plumbeous in color; length 118 mm.; 

 tail 28 mm.; hind foot t6 mm.: Dismal Swamp, 

 Virginia. 



5. Cryptotis Pomel. Similar to Blarina, but 

 much smaller; tail very short; dentition 3/2, i/o, 

 2/1, T,/^,: 18 species, all tropical but two. 



C. parva (Say). Body brownish in color; length 

 79 mm.; tail 16 mm.; hind foot 10 mm.: eastern and 

 central States, south of New York; westward to 

 Nebraska and Texas; in meadows and fields; often 

 rare. 



C.floridana (Merriam) . Color iron gray; length 

 89 mm.; tail 22 mm.; hind foot 22 mm.; similar to 

 C. parva, but larger: Florida, south of latitude 29. 



C. berlandieri (Baird). Color ash brown; length 

 83 mm.; tail 19 mm.; hind foot 12 mm.: coast of 

 southern Texas and valley of the lower Rio Grande. 



6. Notiosorex Baird. Body very small; tail 

 short; dentition 32, i/o, i/i, 3/3: i species. 



N. crawfordi (Baird) . Color olive gray; beneath 

 whitish; length 82 mm.; tail 26 mm.; hind foot 10 

 mm.: eastern Texas to southern California. 



Order 5. Chiroptera.— Bats. Small, flying mammals in which the 

 greatly elongated fore hmbs form the supports of the wings. These 

 consist of a paired integumental membrane which extends between the 

 arms and the four fingers and the body, and includes the hind legs and 

 the tail. The knee bends backwards. The portion of the membrane 

 between the hind legs which incloses the tail is called the interfemoral 



Fig. 147. — Blarina 

 brevicauda {Rhoads). 



