MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 19 1 



Type locality. Peterboro, Madison Co., New York. 



Faunal distribution. Canadian and upper transition zones of eastern 

 United States ; southward in higher Allegheny Mountains to N. Carolina. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. This species is comparatively rare wherever 

 found, as distinguished from the abundance of S. personatus in certain locali- 

 ties. In the swamps and spring-heads of the colder mountain tops, where 

 the smoky shrew is most at home, fumeus and personatus are taken in about 

 equal numbers. As the list of specimens will show, the smoky shrew is evenly 

 distributed in Pa. within the Canadian and upper transition life zones. In 

 N. J. I have only found it twice in counties of the northern border. The 

 specimens taken by me in Beaver Co., Pa., indicate the nearest approach to 

 the austral zone I have noted in this species. 



Habits, etc. I have never found this species in open country. It seems to 

 confine itself to wooded situations, especially those where rocks abound. In 

 its food and general manner of life it undoubtedly resembles the masked 

 shrew living in the same places. 



Description of species. See above under Sorex fumeus. 



Specimens examined or recorded. Pa. Beaver Co., Beaver, 2. Bedford 

 Co., Hyndman, i. Cambria Co., Cresson, several; Krings, i. Clinton Co., 

 near Round Island, 7 ; Renovo, 4. Forest Co., Parrish, i. Monroe Co., 

 Pocono, 2 ; Gresco, i. Pike Co., Dingman's Ferry, 2. Somerset Co., Sum- 

 mit Mills, 2. Sullivan Co., Lakes Ganoga and Leigh, 9 ; Eaglesmere, 3. 

 Susquehanna Co., Dimoch, i. N. J. Passaic Co., Greenwood Lake, i. 

 Sussex Co., near Culver's Gap, i. 



Eastern Marsh Shrew ; Big Water Shrew. Sorex palustris albi- 

 barbis (Cope). 



1862. Neosorex albibarbis Cope, Proceedings Academy Natural Sciences, 

 Phila., p. 1 88. 



1892. Sorex albibarbis Merriam, Proceedings Biological Society, Washn., 

 vol. 7, p. 25. 



Type locality. Profile Lake, Grafton Co., N. Hampshire. 



Faunal distribution. Hudsonian and Canadian zones; Atlantic Ocean to 

 Lake Superior ; Labrador to Pennsylvania. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. Only known from a single specimen taken 

 in northeastern Pa. Not likely to be found in N. J. May eventually be 

 found in parts of the higher Alleghanies of Pa., but long-continued trapping 

 with this object in view has failed to secure a second specimen. The extreme 

 rarity of this shrew in our limits is thereby fully demonstrated. 



Records in Pa. The following is the original announcement of the capture 

 of the eastern marsh shrew in Pa. It is quoted from the Proc. Acad. Nat. 



