THE MAMMALS OF NEW JERSEY. 89 



Blarina parva (Say). 

 Brown Shrew. 

 Plate 39, Fig. i. 



Length 3.75 inches. Dark brown or iron gray above, ashy 

 below. 



This httle animal differs from the short-tailed shrew only in 

 size and color. It seems to be rather scarce wherever found, but 

 this may be due to ignorance of its favorite haunts. I have 

 secured it near Cape May, and Mr. Rhoads records it from 

 Tuckerton, Hackensack marshes, Princeton and Berkeley 

 Heights, Union county. 



Blarina parva Miller. Bull. N. Y. State Museum, 1899, p. 362. 

 — Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 196. 



Family TALPID^. 



Moles. 



These curious animals are adapted for a life underground. 

 Their fore-feet are curiously modified into large hands standing 

 on edge, while the arms are greatly reduced. The muscular 

 power of the fore-feet is very great and the animal can dig its 

 way with tremendous rapidity, usually forcing the earth up at the 

 surface. 



We have several different moles belonging to three genera. 



a. A fleshy star on the nose, teeth i z/Z' c i/i, p 4/4, m 3/3.* 



CONDYLURA (Star-nosed Mole) 

 aa. No fleshy star. 



h. Tail naked, teeth i 3/2, c i/o, p 2,/3, m 3/3. 



SCALOPS (Naked-tailed Mole) 

 hh. Tail hairy, teeth i z/z, c i/i, p 4/4, m 3/3. 



PARASCALOPs (Brewer's Mole) 



*i — incisors, c — canines p — premolars m — molars, 3/3 — three above and 

 three below. 



