a 
44 ‘ BULLETIN NO. VII. 
suli. A peculiar musky fluid is secreted especially during the 
rut. The eyes are small but functional, and the other senses 
acute. The voice is pitched upon a high key, but musical. 
GENUS BLARINA. 
Shrews of a dark color and mole-like pelage, the tail being 
short and hairy. 
Dentition: i, +, ¢ %, pm. §, m. 4x2—32, (adult), or i, }, 
c. $, pm. 4, m. 4x2—830 (immature.) 
Blarina brevicaudata Say. 
THE SHORT-TAILED SHREW. 
Sorex brevicaudatus SAY. Long’s Expedition, I, p. 164, 1823. 
HHRLAN. Fauna Amer.,, p. 29, 1825. 
Isip. GEOFFROY. Dict. Class. V, XI, p. 320. 
GODMAN. Am. Nat. Hist., I, 1831. 
FIscHER. Synopsis Mam., p. 255. 
BACHMAN. Jour. Phil. Acad., VII, 1837. 
Emmons. Quad. Mass., p. 13, 1840. 
AupD. and BacH. Quad. N. A., V. III, p. 335. 
DEKaAy. Zool. N. York, V, I, p. 18. 1842. 
WAGNER. Schreber Siiugethiere, Suppl. 
LINSLEY. Am. Journ. Sci., XLIII, 1842. 
THomMpPSON. Hist. Vermont, 1842. 
PLUMBER. Am.Journ. Sci., XLVI. 
Blarina brevicaudata BAIRD. Mam. N. A., 1837. 
SAMUELS. Agr. Mass., 1861. 
Brachyosorex brevicaudatus DUVERN. GUERM. Mag. d. Zool., 1842. 
WAGNER. Schreb. Siiuget., Suppl. 
FITZINGER. Kritische Untersuchungen, Sitzb. d. k. Akad., 
1868. 
Sorex talpoides GAPPER. Zool. Journ. V, 1830. 
REICHENB. Natury. Raubth. 
GIEBEL. Siugethiere. 
WAGNER. Schreber Siiugeth., Suppl. II. 
Corsira tulpoides GRAY. Proc Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837. 
Blarina talpoides BAIRD. Mam. N. A. 
GRAY. Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1837. 
SAMUELS. Agr. Mass., 1861. 
VERRILL. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1863. 
Amphisorex talpoides GIEBEL, Siiugethiere, p. 901. 

Basin Ore., and seems to be paludial in habit. It possesses characters allying it with 
Neosorex, but it agrees with Sorex in the number of teeth. The only known species is 
one of the largest of the true American shrews. (See Trans. Linnean Society of N. Y., 
vol. ii, 1884.) 

: 
. ‘ [ , ’ ~ - ‘ 
ae aia eer al oe : Sil . oo 
Se ee ee ee a a ee a eS see a ee eee ee eS 
ie 
- . 
ee 
