THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. 87 



Genus SoREx Linnaeus. 

 True Shrews. 



So rex person atus Geoffrey. 



Long-Tailed Shrew. 



Plate 39, Fig. 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 forsteri 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., 1903, 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 



