1936] 



MAMMALS OF OREGON 



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darker brown, sooty or plumbeous in winter pelage. Side glands covered 

 with short stiff hairs as in other shrews. 



Measurements. Type, adult male: Total length, 120 mm; tail, 54; foot, 13. 

 Topotype, adult male: 115 mm; 50; 14. 



Distribution and habitat. Southwestern British Columbia, western 

 Washington, and northwestern Oregon one record for Oregon at 

 Parkdale, northeastern base of Mount Hood (fig. 87). Found in 

 mainly humid Transition and Canadian Zones in forests, thickets, 

 marshes, and meadows. 



The two specimens taken by Cantwell at Parkdale were at an alti- 

 tude of only 1,500 feet, but they reach to timber line on Mount 

 Rainier and in the Olympics. 



In habits they are apparently nearest to bairdi, since they occupy 

 the same general type of country. 



SOREX PACIFICUS PACIFICUS COUES 

 PACIFIC SHREW 



Sorex pacificus Coues, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull., v. 3, p. 650, 



1877. 



Type. Collected at Fort Umpqua, mouth of Umpqua River, Oreg., by E. P. 

 Vollum, no date on label, but cataloged in National Museum collection on 

 March 8, 1858. 



General characters. Largest of the small shrews, next in size to the water 

 shrews; tail not quite as long as head and body; nose long and pointed; 

 feet slender and not conspicuously fringed; eyes minute; ears rather con- 

 spicuous; fur dense and soft over body; feet and tails thinly haired. Color 

 uniform bright snuff brown all over, scarcely paler below and about the same 

 on feet and tail; tail not bicolor. Immature specimens slightly lighter and 

 brighter brown. 



Measurements. Adult female from Marshfield, Oreg. : Total length, 151 mm ; 

 tail, 65; foot, 18 (about average size, no difference in sexes). Another, from 

 Gardiner : 160 ; 54 ; 17.5. 



Distribution and habitat. Coast strip of southwestern Oregon 

 from the mouth of the Umpqua River south to Mendocino, Calif, 

 (fig. 88). There are Ore- 

 gon specimens from Fort 

 Umpqua, Gardiner, 

 Marshfield, Myrtle Point, 

 Gold Beach, and the State 

 line in Curry County. 



General habits . At 

 Myrtle Point in Coos 

 County, McLellan caught 

 these large red shrews 

 about old decayed logs in 

 damp, marshy and brushy 

 places. Farther south 

 along the coast section of 

 northern California they 

 are more or less common 

 in, the redwood and dense 

 spruce forests as well as 

 in the marshes and swamps of the Humboldt Bay section, being gen- 

 erally taken under old logs or stumps in dense chaparral or in the 

 marshes and muddy bottoms. They are easily caught in traps baited 



FIGUKE 88. Range of Pacific and Yaquina shrews in 

 Oregon : 1, Sorex pacificus pacificus; 2, S. p. yaqui- 

 nae. Type localities circled. 



