MAMMALS 



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5. a. howelli Jackson. Color dark drab; length 152 mm.: eastern 

 and central North Carolina and South Carolina southwesterly to the 

 Mississippi and the Gulf coast. 



S. a. australis Chapman. Color clove-brown; length (male) 145 

 mm.: eastern Georgia and eastern Florida. 



S. a. anastasce (Bangs). Color sepia; length (male) 

 137 mm.: Anastasia Island, Florida. 



5. a. parvus (Rhoads). Color dark sepia; length (male) 

 134 mm.: Tampa Bay, Florida. 



S. a. machrinus (Rafinesque). Color sepia or brown; 

 length 200 mm.: eastern Ohio to central Iowa and southern 

 Minnesota; central Michigan to Tennessee. 



S. a. machrinoides Jackson. Color brown; 

 length 172 mm.: central Minnesota to Arkansas 

 and eastern Kansas. 



S. a. piilcher Jack. Color dark fuscous or 

 brown; length (male) 155 mm.: central Arkansas 

 to southern Louisiana and eastern Texas. 



S. a. caryi Jack. Color light drab; length 

 (male) 159 mm.: western Nebraska and north- 

 western Kansas. 



S. a. intermedins (Elliot). Color hght drab; l^^fj^^ Parascaiops 

 length 164 mm.: central and western Oklahoma. 



S. a. texaniis (Allen). Color brown; length 138 mm.: coast region 

 of western Texas; northward to central Texas. 



2. Parascaiops True. Dentition 3/3, i/i , 4/4, t^/t, ; nostrils lateral, 

 on the outer side of the snout; digits not webbed; tail hairy: i species. 



P. breiueri (Bachman). Hairy-tailed mole (Fig. 140; Fig. 142). 

 Body blackish, often with a brownish gloss; length 150 mm.; tail 



Fig. 140. — The tail of 

 (a) Scalopus aqiiaticus 



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Fig. 141. — Lower jaw and fore foot of Scalopus aqiiaticus (from Jackson). 



30 mm.; hind foot 19: eastern States from New Brunswick to North 

 Carolina, in higher altitudes; westward to Ohio; in dry sandy soil; not 

 common. 



