March a BANGS — TWO INSULAR BLARINAS 77 
1902 
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, see pages 77 and 78.) 
Blarina brevicauda compacta! subsp. nov. 
NANTUCKET BLARINA. 
Type, from Nantucket, Massachusetts, old adult @, no. 9705, Bangs coll., 
coll. Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, 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 BZ. 
brevicauda talpoides, but at once distinguishable from that animal by its small 
size and peculiar skull like that of B. d. 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. 6. ¢alpoides ; tail unicolor, dusky. (For measurements, see 
page 78.) 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 
Blarina brevicauda aloga Bangs. 
Sex Total Tail Hind 
No. and age Locality length vertebra foot 
9727.  oldad. West Tisbury, Mass. 120. 24.0 14.0 
o7z0, “G-oldad .*é We ee 128. 24.5 15.0 
9729 ~=s Sh: ol ad. e a 125. 27.5 14.0 
9731 doldad. “* Me nA 12K. 29.0 15.0 
9728 6 ad. g & 118. 25.0 14.5 
e798" ad. ae ae a 118. 24.0 14.0 
9730 6 ad. u cs wy ris 21.5 (tip gone) 14.0 
9734 old ad. ce 118. 23.0 14.0 
9732 »= old ad. ef tf 118. 25.0 14.0 
9725 @ ad. # ef ef 113. 26.5 14.5 
1 Compactus — thick-set. 
