56 John F. Pagels, Carol S. Jones, Charles O. Handley, Jr. 



bia terminated there, the locality, by then consisting of about a dozen 

 Victorian style houses, had become known simply as "Hollywood". By 

 1918 (when Titus Ulke collected the shrew) the trolley line had been 

 extended to Laurel, but Hollywood was still a stop. Evidently there was 

 confusion at that time over the status of that "Hollywood". Fred De 

 Marr, who grew up in the Hollywood area of Prince Georges County, 

 remembers that Christmas cards addressed to "Hollywood" eventually 

 reached his family by way of the post office 50 miles away in Holly- 

 wood, St. Marys County. Titus Ulke was a resident of the District of 

 Columbia. It would have been easy for him to reach Hollywood in 

 Prince Georges County by trolley and not surprising for him to label a 

 specimen collected there "Hollywood, Maryland." It would have been 

 more difficult for him to reach Hollywood in St. Marys County. Since 

 the Prince Georges' Hollywood is within the known range of S. cinereus 

 and the St. Marys' Hollywood is not, it is reasonable to suppose that 

 Titus Ulke's specimen came from Prince Georges County. 



The specimens of S. longirostris from Page and Warren counties, 

 Virginia, appear on a map to be within the range of S. cinereus, but 

 actually the two species probably are ecologically as well as altitudinally 

 segregated. These examples suggest that factors other than or in addi- 

 tion to physiography and ecology operate to delineate the contiguous 

 margins of the ranges of S. cinereus and S. longirostris. Additional 

 study in southern Maryland and western Virginia, in and near areas of 

 contiguity (or of potential sympatry) of the ranges of these species, 

 should provide information on factors limiting their distribution. 



Ecology 



We have ecological data for 41 of the specimens of S. I. longirostris 

 that have been taken in Virginia. Capture locations were almost evenly 

 distributed between open country (22) and forest (19). Those taken in 

 the open (19) were mostly in old abandoned fields, usually in dry sites in 

 dense sedge and/ or grass, with tangles of Japanese honeysuckle and 

 Rubus, and scattered saplings of pine, red cedar, black locust, or other 

 small trees and shrubs. A few specimens have come from older succes- 

 sional stages where saplings and shrubs predominated. Lewis (1943) 

 reported old-field captures of S. I. longirostris in damp sites: in pros- 

 trate honeysuckle in a small, wet swale; in a heavy growth of sedge at 

 the edge of a small sphagnum bog in a field where there were scattered 

 small pines; and in a dense growth of tall sedge and grass at the edge of 

 a former mill pond. We also have specimens from a weedy ditch bank in 

 a corn field, from grass and Rubus in a narrow ecotone between a cultiv- 

 ated field and a swamp, and from a swimming pool in a suburban yard. 



Forests yielding specimens of S. I. longirostris most often have been 

 young forests (16 of 19 records). Bray (1939) caught seven Sorex, pre- 



