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Back not conspicuously blackish 



Hind foot about 14 (t%) ; general color smoky slate- 

 color throughou t S. fumeus 



Hind foot about 12 (^) ; back clear brown, belly 



whitish gray S.personatus 



Sorex albibarbis (Cope; Eastern marsh shrew 

 1862 Neosorex albibarbis Cope, Proc. acad. uat. sci. Philadelphia, 



p. 188. (Profile lake, N. H.) 

 1892 Sorex albibarbis Merriam, Proc. biolog. soc. Washington. 7:25. 

 1895 Sorex albibarbis Miller, North American fauna. 31 Dec. 1895. no. 

 10, p. 46. 

 Upper parts blackish slate witb a slight hoary cast; chin and throat grayish 

 white; rest of lower parts dusky. Total length, 155 (6i) ; tail vertebrae, 70 

 (2|) ; hind foot, 19 (f). (albibarbis; Lat., white beard) 



The marsh shrew inhabits marshes and the banks of watercourses in the 

 boreal zone of eastern North America south in the mountains at least 

 to Pennsylvania and probably farther. 



Sorex hoyi Baird Ifqy's shrew 



1857 Sorex hoyi Baird, Mamm. N, Am. p. 32 (Racine Wis.) 



1895 Sorex hoyi Miller, North American fauna. 31 Dec. 1895. no. 10, p. 43. 

 Upper parts sepia-brown; lower parts whitish gray usually washed with yel- 

 lowish on chest. Total length, 90 (3th); tail vertebrae, 32 (li); hind foot, 

 10 (I), (hoyi; name from that of P. R. Hoy) 



Hoy's shrew, a little known animal, inhabits open fields, plains and 



clearings in the boreal zone and upper part of the transition zone from 



British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south to Wisconsin and northern New 



York. 



Sorex macrurus Batchelder Big-tailed shrew 



1896 Sorex macrurus Batchelder, Proc. biolog. soc. Washington. 8 Dec. 



1896, 10 : 133. (Beedes, Essex co. N. Y.) 



Upper parts hlackiifh slaty, lower parts dark smoke gray. Total length, 125 (5); 

 tail vertebrae, 57 (2^) ; hind foot, 15 [ts). (macrurus; Gk., big tail) 



The big-tailed shrew is known from the eastern Adirondacks and the 

 Catskills only. Thus far only lo specimens have been recorded. 



Sorex richardsoni Bachman Richardson^ s shrew 



1857 Sorex richardsoni Bachman, Jour. acad. nat. sci. Philadelphia. 



7: 383. (Probably from plains of Saskatchewan) 

 1895 Sorex richardsoni Miller, Noi-th American fauna. 31 Dec. 1895. no. 



10, p. 48. 

 Back very dark (almost blackish) brown, without slaty tinge; sides dull 

 yellowish brown ; under parts grayish, washed with chestnut. Total length, 



