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subspecies. Sorex tenellus tenellus occurs on the Alabama Hills, 

 near Lone Pine, Inyo County, California. Sorex tenellus lyelli is a 

 closely related form occurring on Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada, 

 and Sorex tenellus myops is known only from the White Mountains 

 of Inyo County, California, which lie to the eastward of Mount Lyell 

 near the California boundary line. Sorex tenellus nanus is an out- 

 lying relative found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 



The widely distributed Sorex montereyensis montereyensis, which 

 is found in the Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of the northern 

 and central coast districts of California from the Oregon line to San 

 Luis Obispo County, has as its nearest relative Sorex montereyensis 

 mariposae, which is also broadly distributed, being a montane form 

 found in the Transition zone of the Sierra Nevada and Warner Moun- 

 tains, and in the inner coast ranges as far south as Lierly's Ranch, 

 four miles south of Sanhedrin Mountain, Mendocino County. 



Sorex obscurus obscurus occurs in the Transition and Boreal zones 

 of the Sierra Nevada Mountains from Mono County north. This is a 

 subspecies of very broad distribution, being found in southern British 

 Columbia and northern Washington and in the Rocky Mountains, as 

 well as in the Sierra Nevada (Merriam, 1895, p. 73). Its closest 

 allies are Sorex obscurus longicauda, occupying a narrow strip along 

 the Pacific coast from the mouth of the Columbia River to Wrangel, 

 Alaska, and Sorex obscurus ventralis, inhabiting the mountains of 

 Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. 



Neosorex bendirii bendirii, occupying in California the Transition 

 and Boreal zones of the humid northwest coast belt from Humboldt 

 Bay to Gualala, is also found in the Klamath Basin, Oregon, and 

 thence northward along the east side of the Cascade Range to Puget 

 Sound (Merriam, 1895, p. 96). Its closest allies are Neosorex bendirii 

 palmeri, of the coast of Oregon and the Willamette Valley, and Xco- 

 sorex bendirii albiventer, from Lake Cushman, Washington. 



This terminates the list of the California Soricidae, the relation- 

 ships of which are best known. Concerning Sorex shastensis from 

 Mount Shasta, Sorex pacificus from the north coast district of Cali- 

 fornia, and the Sorex ornatus series from Mount Pinos and other 

 mountains of southern California, our knowledge is indefinite. 



Procyoxidae 



The Pacific raccoon, Procyon psora pacifica, type locality Keechelus 

 Lake, Cascade Mountains, Kittitas County, Washington, ranges into 



