THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. 87 
Genus SorEx Linnzeus. 
True Shrews. 
Sorex personatus Geoffroy. 
Long-Tailed Shrew. 
PEATE? 30, Fic. 3; 
Length 3.75 inches. Small and slender, with a long pointed 
snout supporting long whiskers. ‘Tail nearly as long as the head 
and body. Dark brown above, hair slaty at the base, brighter on 
the rump, shading to gray below. 
This is the smallest mammal found in the State of New Jersey 
and it is very rarely that we are favored with a sight of it. My 
own experience is entirely confined to trapping them and I have 
never seen a live individual. They are most abundant along the 
edge of the salt marshes, just where they join the upland, and 
are also found in the bogs of the pine barrens. In the northern 
parts of the State, according to Mr. Rhoads, they are frequent. 
The long-tailed shrews seem to occupy the same runways as the 
meadow mice, and also venture forth among the leaves on the 
floor of the woods in search of insects, worms, etc., which consti- 
tute their food. 
On the ocean side of the State I have found them abundant as 
far south as Cape May, but in west Jersey I know of only one 
record, a specimen secured by Mr. Rhoads at Haddonfield. 
Sorex forstert Abbott, Cook’s Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 752. 
Sorex personatus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, 
p. 33-—Rhoads, Mam. of Pa. and N. J., 1902, p. 189. 
Sorex fumeus Miller. 
Smoky Shrew. 
Length 4.50 inches. Slightly larger than S. personatus, dark 
slate color above shading into lighter ash below ; browner in sum- 
mer. ‘The second and third unicuspid teeth (small single teeth 
