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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF CON- 



DYLURA CRIST ATA (Linn.) Desmarest— 



STAR-NOSED MOLE IN OHIO. 



BY ERNEST W. VICKERS, ELLSWORTH, O. 



The star-nosed mole has been noted in so few counties 

 of the state so far, that a resume of them may not be out 

 of place. I cannot say the list is complete; be that as it 

 may, it will at least serve as a nucleus for a completer 

 knowledge which we may hope to gain in the ver}- near fu- 

 ture. 



Cuyahoga County — Cleveland, J. P. Kirtland; Berea, 

 the writer; Stark County — Canton, the writer; Summit 

 County — Cuyahoga Falls; Portage County — The writer; Me- 

 dina County — Weymouth, Dr. Frank Young; Mahoning 

 County — Ellsworth, the writer; Richland County— Reported 

 in vol. IV Ohio Geol. Survey, p. 179. 



COMPARATIVE ABUNDANCE OF SOREX PERSONA- 



TUS Wog., AND BEARINA BREVICAUDA Baird, 



IN ELLSWORTH, MAHONING COUNTY. 



BY ERNEST W. VICKERS. 



This is based upon the numbers of these two Shrews 

 taken from several hundred post-holes during a few days in 

 the Spring of 1894. Although nothing very definite can be 

 determined from numbers so small and collections made only 

 at one season, yet some idea may be obtained in this matter 

 — at best always vague — of their proportions. — Five of 

 Sorex personatus were taken to nine of Blarina brevicauda. 



