Marsh Shrew 
4. Southern Shrew.  S. longirostris Bachman. Externally very 
much like the common shrew, but with the snout and 
skull much larger, and the third unicuspid tooth smaller 
than the fourth. 
Range. Bertie Co. and Raleigh, North Carolina. 
5. Fisher's Shrew. S. fishert (Merriam). Similar but larger and 
duller. 
Range. Dismal Swamp, Virginia. 
A2. TAIL VERY LONG (2.20 INCHES) AND HEAVY 
6. Long-tailed Shrew. S. macrurus Batchelder. Above, dark slate, 
below, smoky gray. Easily known by the very thick tail 
with a rather long pencil of hairs at the tip. 
Range. Higher parts of the Adirondacks and Catskills. 
B. VERY SMALL} LENGTH 3.20—3.40 INCHES. APPARENTLY ONLY FOUR 
UNICUSPID TEETH ON EACH SIDE, THE THIRD BEING EXCEEDINGLY SMALL 
7. Hoy’s Shrew. S. hoyi Baird. Brown above, shading to gray 
beneath, a touch of fulvous between the front lezs. The 
smallest North American mammal. 
Range. Minnesota to Nova Scotia and the Adirondacks. 
Marsh Shrew 
Sorex albibarbis (Cope) 
Also called Water Shrew. 
Length. 6 inches. 
Description. Shaped like the common shrew but much larger, 
with a body nearly the size ot a Blarina. Colour, blackish 
slate, chin whitish beneath clouded with dusky. Tail, dark 
above, white below. 
Range. Labrador and Canada to the Adirondacks and Alleghanies 
of Pennsylvania. From Minnesota west occurs a_browner 
species (S. palustris) and still others on the Pacific coast. 
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