N... IM7. M.IMM.H.S or Till'. ( AISKII.I. MOCSIAISS Mi:.il:SS. 



two iiKilcs iiiid !i (eiiijihi, jifiivo the (bllowiiij;- iiver;i;4c mca«iiremcjits: 

 Leii{4th, l-!i mir).; tail v<'rtebra', 40; hind loot, i;i.5; head, 2.'3.7. 



SOREX PERSONATUS I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire. 



COMMON KASTEKN SHKKW; MASKED SIIBIOW. 



Two spcciiiieiis were trapiM'd; the lirHt (No. S.'Jlon, I'.S.N.M.) in a bal- 

 Hani swamp, at .'J,700 lect altitude; and th(i second 

 (No. 82940, IJ.8.N.M.) on the actual .summit of 

 Hunter Mountain. lioth are femahis, and ho dif- 

 ferent in eolor from all other.s of this 8i)e('ies that I 

 have seen that 1 hesitate in referrinj;- them to 

 typical Sorex perxonatufi. Their Color is a pale 

 yellowish drab, (juite different from summer speci- 

 mens from the Hudson Highlands, Itoan Mountain, 

 or l<'ort Snelling'. 



Measurements. — No. 8.'Jl<ir), U.y.N.M., measun's: 

 Length, 01) mm.; tail vertebiic, K); tail to end of 

 hairs, 45.5; hind toot, 12; ear IVom crown, .'12; 

 head, 20. No. 82045: Length, 104; tail vertebra-, 42; hind foot, 12.5 



l'"lO. 4 KoitE FOOT (a) 



AND IMM> FOOT (h) 

 OkSoKKX MAf.'RUHUH 



i-iioM rriK Cathkii,i> 



MdI'NIAINH. (X IJ.) 



SOREX MACRURUS Batchelder. 



UK S -TAILED KIIIIKW. 



Sorex mucruruH l{A'rciiicM>i:n, I'nn-. Ijiol.Sor. W'jihIi., Dccciiihi-r x, WM], X, jip. V^'^, 

 VM, text tigs. 26-2H (hUiiII jiimI UmWx). 



On August 24, ISOO, 1 climbed to th<'- summit of llunt(!r Mountain 

 and distributed about (Mghty traps along the ridge iind on the summit 

 of the mountain. Trapping was continued there until September 4, the 

 traps having been visited nine times and frequently changed from 

 place to place dniing this |)eriod. Among the si)e(;im<'ns obtained were 



eight e\ami)le8 of this recently described 

 shn^w. Two of them were preHerv<Ml in alco- 

 hol, two in formalin, and the remaining four 

 as skins with skulls. All ai)pear to be 

 adults. The accompanying text tigures of 

 Sorex iuaerurus (figs. 4, 5, 0) were drawn 

 from specimen No. 82040, I'.S.N.M. collec- 

 tion, an adult female, taken at the sumndt 

 of Hunter Mountain, Greene County, New 

 Vork, August 26, 1800. The (enormous si/e of its tail is shown by com- 

 parison with tigures of the tads of Sonu- persoinUiiH (adult, female, No, 

 82045, U.S.N.M. collection) and Sorex fumeus (adult male, No. 82044, 

 I'.S.N.M. collection), from the same region (fig. fJ, «,/>, o). All were 

 drawn to the sann; s(;ale by Dr. .1. (J. McConnell, and are reprodiuied 

 one and one-balf times tin; natural si/e. 





Ki'i. 5.— Ueai) or SoHEx MAcitir- 



RUH KUOM IIIK CAIXKILL MoUN- 

 TAINH. ( / IJ.) 



