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farmer. Shrews certainly merit better treatment than they usually 
receive at the farmers’ hands. Fortunately they are shy animals, 
largely nocturnal in their habits, and so are seldom victims of man’s 
stupidity. 
CAROLINA SHREW. 
Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). 
Sorex carolinensis Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., VII., Part II., 1837, pp. 
366-370. 
I have referred a few specimens taken in Alexander county, the 
most southern county in the state, to this subspecies. The dis- 
tinction between it and typical brevicauda is thus summed up by 
Merriam: “Slarina carolinensis is merely a small edition of B. 
brevicauda, lacking the more accentuated features of the latter in 
the way of massiveness and angularity of the skull and lower jaw. 
It differs also in the lateral unicuspidate teeth. They are more 
nearly vertical, and the fifth is generally hidden when viewed from 
the outside.” 
The measurements of my specimens are as follows. 
Length 
Accessions See | Me eae Fe 
number oe Total | Tail | ounty 
| 
in. mm. ime || stam: 7 
aoF | 
OM Ge ees emales as) S04! 90 | 19 | Alexander 
37919....| Female...| 3.46 | 88 Uae Sor ara 22 | Alexander 
BHO Z Orne | eVialeas.. 132620. | 92 he 19 | Alexander 
SO20 Al Mentalecs. 3. 70) 9 OARS arene: laren ane | Alexander 
| | 
BOD n as. | Maller... S28 2ep | VOOM N88 | 25 Alexander 
Aweragen|.”.....00 .. | eaten Or Wil, Aes lanes 
The habits of this subspecies agree in all respects with those of 
the short-tailed shrew so far as known, and economically it takes 
the place of that form in the southern part of the country. 
