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braincase, probably due to age, but all seem to belong to one wide- 

 ranging form. If larger series from Illinois and Indiana should 

 show the northern specimens to be separable, the name Sorex longi- 

 rostris lesueurii (Duvernoy), type-locality Wabash River, Indiana, is 

 available. 



SOREX FISHERI Merriam. 



1895. Sorex fisheri Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 86, December 31. 



This very distinct species continues to be known only from the 

 Dismal Swamp, Virginia. In addition to the original specimens, a 

 series of skins with skulls and alcoholic specimens was collected by 

 Dr. W. L. Ralph and Lieut. J. W. Daniel, jr., and presented to the 

 National Museum. The species is apparently related to S. longirostris , 

 but is readily recognizable by its larger size and much larger skull. 

 A litter of five young was collected by Doctor Ralph in the Dismal 

 Swamp, May, 1905, and preserved in alcohol. 



SOREX FUMEUS Miller. 



1895. Sorex fumeus Miller, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 50, December 31. 



This species extends it range down the Alleghenies as far south 

 as Brasstown Bald, Georgia, from which locality it has been recorded 

 by Howell. 1 The National Museum collection contains specimens 

 from southern localities as follows: Mount Rogers, Grayson County, 

 and Rowleysburg, Virginia; Franklin, West Virginia; Roan Moun- 

 tain, North Carolina. A single specimen from Racine, Wisconsin, 

 carries the known range far to the west. The southern specimens 

 seem perfectly typical. 



NOTE ON THE SUPPOSED TYPE OF SOREX FIMBPJPES. 



Bachman described Sorex fimbripes 2 from a specimen received at 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences from Drurys Run, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Baird, in the Mammals of North America, 1857, states that 

 he had not seen the type, which he says is in the Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy. Coues, 1S77, 3 writes: "In 1861 Baird examined Bachman's 

 type, preserved in the Philadelphia Academy, and found it to be a 

 species of ordinary 32-toothed shrew, scarcely or not distinguishable 

 from l cooperi. ,n On this authority Miller 4 placed the name in 

 the synon} r my of Sorex personatus, remarking on the strange charac- 

 ters attributed to the animal by Bachman. As recorded by Lyon and 

 Osgood, 5 an alcoholic shrew, without number and absolutely without 

 record, but bearing a parchment label marked " Sorex fimbripes, 

 Type," was found in the National Museum early in 1898. In the 



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



2 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1837, vol. 7, pt. 2, p. 391. 



s Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey of Terr., 1877, vol. 3, p. 641. 



« N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 41, 1895. 



6 Cat. Type-Spec. Mamm. in U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 243, 1909. 



