Reb. 28 BANGS — LABRADOR MAMMALS 15 
1999 
only Labrador woodchucks that have ever found their way into 
collections. 
Sciurus hudsonicus hudsonicus Erxl. 
One adult female, just beginning to assume the winter pelage, 
was taken October 10, 1898. It measures: total length, 290; 
tail vertebra, 113; hind foot, 49 mm. 
Sorex personatus miscix’ subsp. nov. 
Thirty-nine specimens taken between July 4 and October 11, 
1898. 
Type, from Black Bay, Labrador, & adult, in winter pelage, no. 8651, coll. 
of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected October 10, 1898, by Ernest Doane. 
Subspecific characters.— Larger than true S. personatus, being as large as 
S. personatus streatort Merriam from Alaska; hind foot larger than in true 
S. personatus; colors paler and grayer at all seasons, but especially so in 
winter; winter and summer pelages very different in color; skull much larger 
(even larger than that of S. personatus streatori) ; brain case much higher; 
foramen magnum smaller and narrower. 
Color.— Summer pelage: upper parts, broccoli brown, shading on rump 
toward sepia—the amount of sepia varying much in different individuals, in 
some skins spreading well up over the back; under parts pale smoke gray; 
tail, feet and hands as in true S. fersonatus. Winter pelage: upper parts, 
drab gray; under parts, base of hairs slate gray, tips silvery gray, the basal 
slate gray showing through in places; tail more hairy than in summer, and 
more sharply bicolored. There are no chestnut-colored individuals in the 
series. 
Cranial characters.— Skull lightly built and papery; much larger than that 
of true S. fersovatus ; brain case very high; foramen magnum smaller and 
narrower. 
Measurements.— Type, & adult: total length, 104; tail vertebre, 44; hind 
foot, 14mm. Averages of the twenty largest specimens in the series: total 
length, 102.25; tail vertebra, 43.6; hind foot, 13.3 mm. The largest speci- 
men in the series, no. 7935, sex undetermined: total length, 111; tail vertebra, 
44; hind foot, 14 mm. The smallest individual in the series, no. 8662, ¢, 
young adult: total length, 94; tail vertebra, 42; hind foot, 13 mm. 
Skull, type, ¢ adult: greatest length, 17.8; greatest width, 8.4 mm. 
1 Miscix— changeable. 
