March 3 

 1902 



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BANGS TWO INSULAR BLARINAS 



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under fur shows somewhat ; under parts pale silvery gray, almost whitish on 

 ventral region and between arms, the basal portion of the fur slightly darker 

 than the apical ; a sharply drawn line of demarcation along middle of sides 

 between colors of upper and under parts ; hands and feet white — decidedly 

 paler than in B. brevicauda talpoides ; tail dusky above, gray below — dis- 

 tinctly bicolor. (For measurements, seepages 77 and 78.) 



Blarina brevicauda compacta x subsp. nov. 

 Nantucket Blarina. 



Type, from Nantucket, Massachusetts, old adult $ , no. 9705, Bangs coll., 

 coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, collected July 10, 1899, by Outram 

 Bangs. 



Characters. — - Similar to B. brevicauda aloga in size and cranial characters, 

 but very different in color — in this respect more nearly like the mainland B. 

 brevicauda talpoides, but at once distinguishable from that animal by its small 

 size and peculiar skull like that of B. b. aloga. 



Color. — Upper parts drabby slate gray, the dark gray under fur showing 

 through ; under parts similar but slightly less drabby ; no line of demarcation 

 along sides — the animal being distinctly one-colored ; hands and feet soiled 

 grayish, as in B. b. talpoides ; tail unicolor, dusky. (For measurements, see 

 page 78.) 



measurements (in millimeters). 

 Blarina brevicauda aloga Bangs. 



1 Compactus — thick-set. 



