252 CALIFORNIA MAMMALS. 



T'ype locality, Monterey, California. 



Monterey Shrews are found in the coast region from San 

 Luis Obispo to Oregon, and on the west slope of the Sierra Ne- 

 vada. They probably frequent damp forests. I caught one in 

 the redwoods in Mendocino County in a meat-baited trap set at 

 the end of a log, where a mouse in a trap bad [been partly eaten 

 the previous night. 



Monterey Shrew. Nearly life size. 



Sorex ornatus Merriam. (Adorned.) 



ADORNED SHREW. 



Summer pelage; above ash gray; below whitish; this color 

 spreading well up the sides ; tail dark, paler at the base below. 

 Winter pelage; a patch of darker hairs on the hips and rump. 



Length about 105 mm. (4.15 inches); tail vertebrae 43 

 (1.70); hind foot 12.5 (.50). 



Type locality, Mount Pinos, Ventura County, California. 



The Adorned Shrew is known only from' the mountains of 

 southern California, and is apparently rare. I found two dead 

 near Santa Ysabel, San Diego County, apparently having been 

 caught by a cat and dropped. Cats will not eat shrews or moles 

 because of their disagreeable odor. 



Sorex calif omicus Me;rriam. 



CALIFORNIA SHREW. 



Small; ears conspicuous; skull small and flat; above ash 

 gray with a decided "pepper and salt" appearance; below 

 plumbeous tipped with whitish. 



