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Sorex palustris navigator (Neosorer) Baird. Type locality unknown, stated to be Fort~* 
Vancouver, Washington, but probably northern Idaho. Geographic distribution, the Rocky 
Mountains and outlying ranges from British Columbia to Southern Colorado and the Sierra 
Nevada of California, south to the Sequoia National Park. Specimens identified from Nelson; 
Cranbrook; Lillooet; Atlin; Lake District, near Victoria, Vancouver Island. 
Sorex bendirii (Atophyrar) Merriam. Type, Klamath Basin, Oregon. Range, Klamath 
Basin, Oregon, northward along east side of Cascade Range to Puget Sound, westward to coast 
of California and south to Sonoma County. Museum specimens taken at Sumas are referred 
to this species. 
A number of small mammal-skins were sent to Mr. Edward Nelson, Chief, Biological Survey, 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., early in the year for identification, and these, 
having been identified by members of his staff, were returned in April. The identifications of 
the Sorea and Neosorez have been made by Dr. Jackson, who is engaged on a critical study 
of these groups, and the Peromyscus by Mr. Howell and Mr. Preble. 
The following is the list of mammals sent and identified :— 
Peromyscus. 
(Catalogue No. of Skins with Corresponding Skulls.) 
297. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 409. Peromyscus maniculatus artemisie. 
298. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 411. Peromyscus maniculatus artemisie. 
299. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 452. Peromyscus maniculatus artemisia. 
304. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 453. Peromyscus maniculatus artemisic. 
305. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 454. Peromyscus maniculatus artemisie. 
808. Peromyscus maniculatus borealis. 457. Peromyscus maniculatus oreas. 
Sorer. 
(Catalogue No. of Skins with Corresponding Skulls.) 
922. Sorex v. vagrans. 944. Sorex v. vagrans. 
923. Sorer o. obscurus. 947. Sorex o. obscurus. 
924. Sorex o. obscurus. 949. Sorer vancowverensis. 
925. Sorex p. personatus. 950. Sorex o. setosus. « 
926. Sorex v. vagrans. 952. Sorer vancouverensis. 
931. Sorex v. obscurus. 961. Sorex v. vagrans. 
932. Sorex v. obscurus. 962. Sorer v. vagrans. 
984. Sorer v. obscurus. 963. Sorex v. vagrans. 
938. Sorer v. obscurus. 974. Sorer v. vagrans. 
940. Sorex v. obscurus. 
(No. of Skins with no Skulls.) 
948. Sorex o. obscurus. 957. Sorer vancouverensis. 
951. Sorer o. setosus. 
Neosorer,. 
(Catalogue No. of Skins with Corresponding Skulls.) 
« OTT. Neosorer p. navigator. 982. Neosorer p. navigator. 
978. Neosorer p. nuvigator. 9838. Neosorer p. navigator. 
979. Neosorer p. navigator. 984. Neosorexr p. navigator. 
980. Neosorer p. navigator. 985. Neosorer p. navigator. 
981. Neosorex p. navigator. 
Some Novres ON THE EARLIER-KNOWN History OF THE CHIROPTERA,; WITH LIST OF THOSE 
SPECIES OCCURRING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
Of our smaller mammals no order of such magnitude with such a wide geographical 
distribution produces a greater field for research than the Chiroptera, inhabiting, as it does, 
the Eastern and Western Hemispheres to the northern and southern limits of tree-growth, 
extending in the Pacific Ocean from America to Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands, and from 
Asia to New Zealand, Samoa, the Caroline and Ladrone Islands. 

