82 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



on the shrews, on the systematic status and distribution of 

 which Dr. Cooper evidently did not care to commit himself.) 



"Sorex vagrans Cp." (probably part), Cooper, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad Sci., 4, 1870, p. 70 (Latitude of San Francisco said to 

 be southern limit of distribution). 



"Sorex Suckleyi, Baird" (probably part). Cooper, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., 4, 1870, p. 70 (Latitude of San Francisco said to be 

 southern limit of distribution). 



Specimens examined. — Two : No. 5629, Univ. Calif. Mus. 

 Vert. Zool.; No. 1675, U. S. Nat. Mus. (in alcohol). No. 

 5629 : obverse of label "Novato Point, Marin Co., Cal., Nov. 

 1st. 70 Sorex J. G. C." ; reverse, ten measurements. No. 1675 : 

 original label missing; obverse of museum label attached 

 reads "Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U. S. A. 1675 

 Sorex vagrans Shoalwater Bay W. T. Dr. J. G. Cooper." 



No. 5629 prepared as study skin; skull inside; forefeet 

 folded on breast, hind feet extended posteriorly; tail not 

 skinned out, curled up posteriorly. No. 1675 is the type of 

 the species; it is preserved entire in alcohol and is in good 

 condition except that the hair has come off from the entire 

 skin; for further remarks on the condition of the type, see 

 Lyon and Osgood (1909, p. 251). 



I am indebted to Dr. Hartley H. T. Jackson of the U. S. 

 Biological Survey for confirming the identification of this 

 specimen. 



Neosorex palustris navigator Baird 



"Neosorex navigator Cooper," Pac. R. R. Expl. and Surv., 

 12^ book 2, 1860, p. 36 (" . . . one seems to be peculiar 

 to the Territory, the water shrew {Neosorex navigator], 

 caught while swimming a foot below the surface of one of 

 the lakes at the head of the Yakima river, and at least 2,500 

 feet above the ocean") ; Same, p. 73 ("But one specimen of 

 this species was obtained during the expedition; this, accord- 

 ing to the label now attached, was found at Fort Vancouver, 

 but I am inclined to consider this a mistake, and that it was 

 really taken while swimming under water in a lake near the 

 summit of the Cascade mountains, August 31, 1853"). 



