no. 1825. THE LONG-TAILED SHREWS— HOLLISTER. 379 



Remarks. — There are no specimens showing intergradation be- 

 tween this species and Sorex personatus. Specimens of personatus 

 from the mountains of western Maryland and Virginia in no way 

 approach it in external or cranial characters, and it is apparently a 

 true Austral species, perfectly distinct from the species of the southern 

 Alleghenies. Only ten specimens of Sorex fontinalis are known. 

 T^hey were all collected near the District of Columbia, in Maryland, 

 at localities as follows : Beltsville, 2; Hyattsville, 5 ; 1 Laurel, 2; Sandy 

 Spring, 1. 



SOREX LONGIROSTRIS Bachman. 



1837. Sorex longirostris Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 7, pt. 2, 



p. 370. 

 1842. Amphisorex lesueurii Duvernoy, Mag. de zool., ser. 2, ruamrn., p. 33, 



November. 

 1901. Sorex personatus lesueurii Miller and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 30, No. 1, p. 235, December. 



An alcoholic specimen of this rare shrew from Butler, Taylor 

 County, Georgia, has been found in the collection of the National 

 Museum. It was presented by Dr. H. M. Neisler, and was cata- 

 logued in 1873 as No. 11318. The locality is the most southern 

 point from which Sorex is known in the eastern United States, and 

 the specimen is of great interest because it probably represents the 

 typical form of Bachman's S. longirostris, described from the Swamps 

 of the Santee River, South Carolina. The specimen, a pregnant 

 female, is in an excellent state of preservation. It measures (from 

 alcohol, before removal of the skull): Total length, 82 mm.; tail 

 vertebra?, 28; hind foot, 10.5. The skull measures: Condylobasal 

 length, 14.1; breadth of cranium, 7.4; greatest anteorbital breadth, 

 4.2; length of bony palate, 5.3. 



Howell has already recorded this species from northern Georgia 

 and from Bicknell, Indiana, 2 and its known range was still further 

 extended by the capture of a specimen at Chesapeake Beach, Cal- 

 vert County, Maryland, July 3, 1908, by Dr. M. W. Lyon, jr. An 

 additional specimen from Washington, District of Columbia, collected 

 by C. Girard, and entered April 19, 1855, as number 637, has been 

 found in the Museum collection. The skin without skull, from New 

 Harmony, Indiana, recorded somewhat doubtfully by Doctor Merriam 

 as Sorex personatus lesueurii, seems certainly to be S. longirostris. 

 At that time the occurrence of this species in Indiana was unthought 

 of, and the determination of a skin alone, with so few specimens of 

 longirostris for comparison, was virtually impossible. The eight 

 specimens 3 before me show a little variation in the shape of the 



1 Biological Survey collection. 



2 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 22, p. 66, Apr. 17, 1909. 



8 Five specimens from Biological Survey collection; Young Harris, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina; 

 New Harmony and Bicknell, Indiana. 



