Feb., 1912. Mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 423 



Subgenus BLARINA Gray. 



"Teeth 32; unicuspids 5, the anterior 4 in two pairs, first and second 

 largest and subequal, third and fourth abruptly much smaller and 

 subequal, fifth minute. Basal lobe of middle incisor elongated antero- 

 posteriorly. Brain-case not arched anteroposteriorly, highest at 

 lambdoid suture; plane of occiput nearly flat." (Merriam.) 



Blarina brevicauda (Say). 

 Short-tailed Shrew. Mole Shrew. 



Sorex hrevicaudus Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, p. 164. Kexnicott 

 Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 578 (Cook Co., Illinois). 



Sorex Dekayi Lapham, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc, II, 1852 (1853), p. 338 (Wis- 

 consin). 



Sorex Blarina {brevicaudatus) Kenn'ICOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1857, U. S. Patent Office 

 Rept., 1858, p. 93. 



Sorex talpoides Gapper, Zool. Journ., V, 1830, p. 202, PL VIII (Ontario). 



Blarina brevicaudata Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 187 

 (Iowa). Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 44 

 (Minnesota). 



Blarina brevicauda Strong, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 438 (Wisconsin). 

 Bailey, Rept. Orn. & Mamm., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1887, p. 435 (Minnesota). 

 Evermann & Butler, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 132 (Indiana). 

 Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 10 (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, 

 Illinois, Michigan, Indiana). Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), 

 p. 202 (Tennessee). Snyder, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, II, 1902, p. 122 (Wis- 

 consin). Adams, Rept. State Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 130 

 (Michigan). Jackson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 74. Jackson, 

 Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, VI, 1908, p. 32 (Wisconsin). Hahn, Ann. Rept. 

 Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 598 (Indiana). Wood, 

 Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 583 (Illinois). 



Type locality — Near Blair, Washington Co., Nebraska. 



Distribution — From Nebraska and Manitoba east to the Atlantic 

 coast, north to southern Canada, south to northern Missouri, 

 Illinois and Virginia and in the mountains to North Carolina and 

 Tennessee. 



Description — Upper parts dusky plumbeous, showing brownish 

 plumbeous in some lights ; under parts paler and more or less washed 

 with ashy; tail short, dark above and somewhat paler below; four 

 well developed unicuspid teeth, the first two larger than the third 

 and fourth, the third and fourth about equal. 



Measurements — Average measurements of 1 2 specimens from Wis- 

 consin and northern Illinois: Total length, about 5 in. (125 mm.); 

 tail vertebrae, about i in. (25.6 mm.); hind foot, .62 in. (15.9 mm.). 



