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record of it is known to me from southwestern Pa., where it may be expected 

 to occur, however. 



Records in Pa. — Chester Co. — An alcoholic specimen from West Chester 

 is in the Cope collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila. A skin 

 from Thorndale is in my collection. — Rhoads, 1902. 



Cumberland Co. — Baird describes a specimen from Carlisle iu Mammals 

 N. America, p. 50. 



Records in N. J. — Bergen Co. — " Mr. Frank M. Chapman writes me that 

 there is in the American Museum of Natural History, a specimen of this 

 shrew taken on then Hackensack marshes in New Jersey only a few miles 

 from the New York State line." — Miller, Bull. N. Y. State Museum, 1899, 

 p. 362. 



Cape May Co. — Two specimens in my collection were captured near Cape 

 •May a few years ago. — Rhoads, 1902. 



Mercer Co. — I found in pellets of long-eared owls kindly sent me by Mr. 



A. H. Phillips, of Princeton, N. J., 3 skulls of this species. The pellets were 

 collected by Mr. Phillips in 1891, near Princeton. — Rhoads, 1902. 



Ocean Co. — Merriam records 3 specimens from Tuckerton. See North 

 Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 18. I trapped one several years ago on Barrel 

 island, in Tuckerton Bay. — Rhoads, 1902. 



Union Co. — Mr. Waldron Miller, of Plainfield writes that he found the 

 skulls of li, B. parva in 50 long-eared owl pellets collected in 1902, near 

 Berkeley Heights. Strange to say, these pellets only contained 3 skulls of 



B. brevicauda. 



Habits, etc. — Never having seen this animal alive, and having only trapped 

 3 specimens, my knowledge of it is very deficietit. It is- evidently at home 

 in both marshy and upland grounds, and frequents the same hiding places as 

 the masked shrew, Sorexpersonatus. Its capture on Barrel Island proves it 

 must be an expert swimmer as neap tides often nearly cover everything on 

 the island from sight, and the shrews have to cling to wreckage and drift for 

 hours before regaining a foothold on the island. 



Description 0/ Species. — A short, chunky, bobtailed shrew with body about 

 as long as that of 6'. personatus and fumeus, but twice as thick ; the tail only 

 half as long as theirs. Color above, sepia to dark hair brown ; beneath, ash 

 gray. 



Measurements. — (Specimen from Cape May, N. J.), total length, 81 J^mm. 

 (3^ in.) ; tail vertebrae, 22 (if) ; hind foot, 11 (y'^) ; (specimen from Bar- 

 rel Isl., Tuckerton Bay, N. J.), 87, 17, 11. By comparing these measure- 

 ments, made in the flesh by the same collector from specimens taken in the 

 same region, we see that Dr. Merriam's specific distinctions between B. 

 parva and B. floridana, based on size, are set at naught. It would be inter- 

 esting to know what the collector's measurement of the 3 Tuckerton, N. J., 



