Fes., 1912. MamMats oF ILLInois AND WISCONSIN—CoRY. 423 
Subgenus BLARINA Gray. 
“Teeth 32; unicuspids 5, the anterior 4 in two pairs, first and second 
largest and subequal, third and fourth abruptly much smaller and 
subequal, fifth minute. Basal lobe of middle incisor elongated antero- 
posteriorly. Brain-case not arched anteroposteriorly, highest at 
lambdoid suture; plane of occiput nearly flat.”” (Merriam.) 
Blarina brevicauda (Say). 
SHORT-TAILED SHREW. MOLE SHREW. 
Sorex brevicaudus Say, Long’s Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, p. 164. KENNICOTT 
Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 578 (Cook Co., Iflinois). 
Sorex Dekayi LApHaM, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc., II, 1852 (1853), p. 338 (Wis- 
consin). 
Sorex Blarina (brevicaudatus) KENNIcOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1857, U. S. Patent Office 
Rept., 1858, p. 93. 
Sorex talpoides GAPPER, Zool. Journ., V, 1830, p. 202, Pl. VIII (Ontario). 
Blarina brevicaudaia ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 187 
(Iowa). Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 44 
(Minnesota). 
Blarina brevicauda STRONG, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 438 (Wisconsin). 
Baitey, Rept. Orn. & Mamm., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1887, p. 435 (Minnesota). 
EVERMANN & ButLerR, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 132 (Indiana). 
Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 10 (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, 
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana). Ruoaps, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), 
p. 202 (Tennessee). SNYDER, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., II, 1902, p. 122 (Wis- 
consin). ApAms, Rept. State Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 130 
(Michigan). Jackson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 74. JACKSON, 
Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 32 (Wisconsin). Haun, Ann. Rept. 
Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 598 (Indiana). Woop, 
Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 583 (Illinois). 
Type locality — Near Blair, Washington Co., Nebraska. 
Distribution — From Nebraska and Manitoba east to the Atlantic 
coast, north to southern Canada, south to northern Missouri, 
Illinois and Virginia and in the mountains to North Carolina and 
Tennessee. 
Description — Upper parts dusky plumbeous, showing brownish 
plumbeous in some lights; under parts paler and more or less washed 
with ashy; tail short, dark above and somewhat paler below; four 
well developed unicuspid teeth, the first two larger than the third 
and fourth, the third and fourth about equal. 
Measurements — Average measurements of 12 specimens from Wis- 
consin and northern Illinois: Total length, about 5 in. (125 mm.); 
tail vertebra, about 1 in. (25.6 mm.); hind foot, .62 in. (15.9 mm.). 
