418 Fretp Museum or Naturat History — Zoétocy, Vor. XI. 
Sorex dispar BATCHELDER. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 1911, p. 97.) Type 
locality — Beedes, Essex Co., New York. Color somewhat similar to fumeus, 
but tail much longer; also differs in cranial characters. 
Sorex richardsonit BACHMAN. Type locality — Unknown, probably plains of the 
Saskatchewan. Description as previously given. 
Sorex fumeus Miter. Type locality — Peterboro, Madison Co., New York. 
Description as previously given. 
Sorex longirostris BACHMAN. Type locality — Swamps of Santee River, South Caro- 
lina. Description as previously given. 
Sorex fishert MERRIAM. (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 86, Pl. IV, fig. 4.) Type 
locality — Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Virginia. Similar to longirostris 
but larger; hind foot longer. Color ‘‘dull chestnut brown fading to drab on 
under parts.”” (Merriam). 
The Field Museum collection contains 7 specimens of the Carolina 
Shrew from extreme southern Illinois; 4 from Reevesville, Johnson Co., 
and 3 from Olive Branch, Alexander Co. Aside from these the only 
other specimen known to have been taken within our limits is that 
recorded by Wood, as identified by Merriam, which was caught in a 
tamarack swamp near Pistakee Bay, McHenry Co., November 14, 1907 
(Wood, J. ¢., p. 582). 
The limits of its range are unknown, but it may be expected to occur 
throughout [linois and perhaps in southern Wisconsin. 
Its habits may be assumed to differ but little from those of S. per- 
Sonatus. 
Specimens examined from Illinois: 
Illinois — Reevesville, Johnson Co., 4; Olive Branch, Alexander Co., 
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Genus MICROSOREX Coues. 
Microsorex Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. Terr., III, 1877, 
p. 646. Type Sorex hoyi Baird. 
Size very small; functional unicuspid teeth in upper jaw having a 
distinct pigmented secondary cusp on the inner sides; 3d unicuspid 
exceedingly minute and wedged in between the 2d and 4th. 
Dental formula: I. a, C2, Bay, 2 373 = 35, 
2-2 o-0 1-1 353 
Microsorex hoyi (Barren). 
Hovy’s Surew. Picmy SHREW. 
Sorex hoyi Bairp, Mammals N. Amer., 1857, p. 32 (Racine, Wisconsin). STRONG, 
Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 438 (Wisconsin). Apams, Rept. State 
Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 130 (Michigan). Mutter, N. Amer. 
Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 89 (Minnesota, etc.). 
Sorex (Microsorex) hoyi Merriam, N. Amer, Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 89 (Minne- 
sota, etc.). 
