MAMMALS SORICINAE BLARINA CAROLINENSIS. 



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List of Specimens. 



BLABINA CAROLINENSIS. 



Sorex carolinensis, BACHMAN, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VII, 1837, 366 ; pi. xxiii, f. 1. 



AUD. & BACH. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 176 ; pi. Ixxv. (Same description as preceding.) 

 Sorex (dnolus) carolinensis, WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. V, 1855, 554. 



Sp. CH. Size rather small. Fur soft and rather long, measuring 2| lines. Feet smaller than in B. talpoides. Tail rather 

 shorter than the head. 



Color dark-leaden gray, a little paler beneath, with a slight gloss of sooty brown above, and a little hoariness. Head and 

 body about 2.50 inches. Tail f of an inch. Hind foot .46 of an inch. Skull about .76. 



Size considerably less than adults of B. talpoides. Body stout. Feet large. Nose moder 

 ately pointed. Ears small, much as in B. talpoides, concealed by the fur. Fur rather full and 

 long ; hairs on the back measuring two and a half lines. Hand large, broader than the foot? 

 its claws considerably longer ; contained about one and a third times in the hinder one. Soles 

 naked except on the sides of the heel. Tail short, rather less than the head, with short bristly 

 hairs forming a pencil at the tip. 



Color above, a dark -leaden gray, a little paler beneath, with a faint gloss of dark, sooty 

 brown on the tips of the hairs above, and a very slight hoariness produced by a paler bar near 

 the tips of the hairs above, (not noticed in No. 628.) 



The skull is thick and short, not much attenuated anteriorly. Dental formula, -3 H~ 3=2 + 

 ^ = 32. Anterior upper incisors approximate, but do not touch. No basal hook, but an 

 angular lobe. First premolar tooth but little smaller than the second. The third and fourth 

 considerably smaller ; the latter rather less of the two and not descending so low, placed close 

 to the first molar ; the fifth tooth wedged in between their inner portions. All these teeth, 

 except the fifth, with an internal lateral basal knob. The first two premolars, though more 

 than twice as wide as the next two, are not much longer. The lower anterior incisors are stout 

 and much curved below, with three lobed dentations on the cutting edge. The crowns and 

 points of the teeth are colored dark chestnut-brown, nearly black at the tips. The outside of 

 the upper molars is, however, mostly uncolored. 



