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It seems likely that in Virginia S. I. longirostris actually occurs 

 throughout the Piedmont and Coastal Plain, except on the Eastern 

 Shore (and in the extreme Southeast, where it is replaced by S. I. 

 fisheri). Distribution of this shrew in the western, mountainous portion 

 of Virginia remains to be determined. It definitely occurs west of the 

 Blue Ridge near Luray, Page County, and near Front Royal, Warren 

 County, from whence we have examined specimens. It also has been 

 reported at Mountain Lake, Giles County (Odum 1944); Blacksburg, 

 Montgomery County (Handley and Patton 1947); and Big Levels, 

 Augusta County (Bruce 1937). We examined the Giles County speci- 

 mens collected by Odum and agree with French (1980a) that they are 

 young masked shrews, Sorex cinereus Kerr. The Montgomery and 

 Augusta County specimens apparently have been lost. Handley et al. 

 (1980) supposed that those specimens also were misidentified. It is pos- 

 sible that S. I. longirostris makes incursions into the lower sectors of the 

 Blue Ridge and Ridge and Valley provinces in the drainages of the 

 James, Roanoke, and Tennessee rivers, as it does through the Potomac 

 watershed into the lower Shenandoah Valley, but this has yet to be 

 verified. 



Sorex longirostris seems to be limited in its westward distribution 

 in Virginia and in its northward distribution in Maryland by the pres- 

 ence of S. cinereus. This species is widespread and locally abundant in 

 western Virginia and in Maryland except on the Western Shore south of 

 the latitude of Annapolis. These similar species appear to exhibit con- 

 tiguous allopatry in Virginia and Maryland. There are few if any known 

 exceptions to their allopatry in this region. The reported occurrence of 

 S. c. fontinalis Hollister in northern Virginia (Arlington County, Bray 

 1939), an area inhabited by S. longirostris, is not an exception. The 

 specimen (USNM 267569) identified formerly as S. c. fontinalis actually 

 is S. longirostris (Handley 1982). 



A possible exception is a specimen of S. c. fontinalis (USNM 

 219050, identification verified by us), collected in 1918 by Titus Ulke 

 and labeled "Hollywood, Maryland". Hollywood post office is in St. 

 Marys County, in extreme southern Maryland, well within the range of 

 S. longirostris. There is also a "Hollywood" community about two miles 

 northeast of the center of College Park, Prince Georges County. This 

 "Hollywood" is within the known range of S. c. fontinalis. Gardner 

 (1950) and Paradiso (1969) attributed USNM 219050 to Hollywood, 

 Prince Georges County. There are no original labels with Ulke's speci- 

 men and the accession files shed no light on the whereabouts of Ulke's 

 "Hollywood". However, local history is helpful in pinning down the 

 locality. The Hollywood in Prince Georges County was founded around 

 1900 by Edward Daniels as "Hollywood-on-the-Hill". About 1902, 

 when the Rhode Island Avenue trolley line from the District of Colum- 



