Fes., 1912. Mammats oF ILtinois anp Wisconsin — Cory. 415 
Description — Color of back noticeably different from the sides; upper 
parts very dark brown; sides of body fulvous brown; under parts 
ashy plumbeous, more or less faintly washed with brownish; tail 
dark brown above, paler brown on under surface, the end blackish; 
3rd unicuspid tooth decidedly larger than the 4th. All unicuspid 
teeth larger than in S. fumeus and brain-case and rostrum heavier. 
In summer a nearly concolor brown pelage occurs hardly dis- 
tinguishable from the brown pelage of S. fumeus. 
Measurements — Total length, about 4.50 in. (114 mm.); tail vertebrz, 
1.60 in. (41 mm.); hind foot, .56 in. (14 mm.). 
Richardson’s Shrew probably occurs throughout Wisconsin, but it 
is doubtful if its range extends quite so far south as Illinois. There 
are specimens in the Field Museum from Solon Springs, Douglas Co.; 
Sayner and Conover, Vilas Co.; and Pelican Lake, Oneida Co.; Jackson 
records 5 specimens taken southeast of Rhineland in Oneida Co. (I. c., 
p. 30); Synder secured a specimen near Beaver Dam, Dodge Co. (I. c., 
p. 123); and Mr. W. H. Osgood secured a specimen in brown pelage at 
Pelican Lake, Oneida Co., on September 20, 1911, which agrees per- 
fectly in coloration with brown specimens of S. fumeus. The fact 
that so few specimens have been taken does not necessarily imply that 
the animal is rare, as all collectors know Shrews are by no means easy 
to trap and are scarcely ever seen unless found in some pit or well 
into which they have fallen. 
Specimens examined from Wisconsin: 
Wisconsin — Solon Springs, Douglas Co., 2; Pelican Lake, Oneida Co., 
1; Sayner, Vilas Co., 1; Conover, Vilas Co., 1; (S. C.), Beaver Dam, 
Dodge Co., 1=6. 
Sorex fumeus MILLER. 
SMOKY SHREW. 
Sorex fumeus Mitter, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 50. Ruoaps, Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), p. 203 (Tennessee). Ho ister, Bull. Wis. Nat. 
Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 142 (Wisconsin). Howe, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 
XXII, 1909, p. 66 (Tennessee, etc.). 
Sorex richardsonii Bairp, Mammals N. Amer., 1857, p. 24 (Racine, Wisconsin). 
StronG, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 438 (Wisconsin). 
Type locality — Peterboro, Madison Co., New York. 
Distribution — Northeastern United States, Nova Scotia, southern 
New Brunswick, southern Ontario and southern Quebec, west to 
Wisconsin and south in the mountains to North Carolina, Ten- 
nessee and northern Georgia. 
Description — General color dark slaty plumbeous; under parts slightly 
paler and more or less washed with ashy; tail dark above, with the 
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