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suli. A peculiar musky fluid is secreted especially during the 

 rut. The eyes are small but functional, and the other senses 

 acute. The voice is pitched upon a high key, but musical. 



GENUS BLARINA. 



Shrews of a dark color and mole-like pelage, the tail being 

 short and hairy. 



Dentition : i, }, c. $, pm. -f, m. |x2=32, (adult), or i, }, 

 c. --, pm. -J, m. fx2=30 (immature.) 



Blarina breyicaudata SAY. 



THE SHORT-TAILED SHREW. 



Sorex brevicaudatus SAY. Long's Expedition, I, p. 164, 1823. 



HHRLAN. Fauna Amer., p. 29, 1825. 



ISID. GEOFFROY. Diet. Class. V, XI, p. 320. 



GODMAN. Am. Nat. Hist., I, 1831. 



FISCHER. Synopsis Mam., p. 255. 



BACHMAN. Jour. Phil. Acad., VII, 1837. 



EMMONS. Quad. Mass., p. 13, 1840. 



AUD. and BACH. Quad. N. A., V. Ill, p. 335. 



DEKAY. Zool. N. York, V, I, p. 18. 1842. 



WAGNER. Schreber Saugethiere, Suppl. 



LINSLEY. Am. Journ. Sci., XLIII, 1842. 



THOMPSON. Hist. Vermont, JS42. 



PLUMBER. Am. Journ. Sci., XLVI. 

 Blarina brevicaudata BAIUD. Mam. N. A., 1837. 



SAMUELS. Agr. Mass., 1861. 



Brachyosorex brevicaudatus DUVERN. GQERM. Mag. d. Zool., 1842. 

 WAGNER. Schreb. Sauget., Suppl. 



FITZINGER. Kritische Untersuchungen, Sitzb. d. k. Akad., 



1868. 

 Sorex talpoides GAPPER. Zool. Journ. V, 1830. 



REICHENB. Naturg. Raubth. 



GIEBEL. Saugethiere. 



WAGNER. Schreber Saugeth., Suppl. II. 

 Corsira talpoides GRAY. Proc Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837. 

 Blarina talpoides BAIRD. Mam. N. A. 



GRAY. Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1837. 



SAMUELS. Agr. Mass., 1861. 



VERRILL. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1863. 

 Amphisorex talpoides GIEBEL. Saugethiere, p. 901. 



Basin Ore., and seems to be paludial in habit. It possesses characters allying it with 

 Neosorex, but it agrees with Sorex in the number Of teeth. The only known species is 

 one of the largest of the true American shrews. (See Trans. Linnsean Society of N. Y. 

 vol. ii, 1884.) 



