104 J. O. Whitaker, Jr., G. D. Hartman, and R. Hein 



CONCLUSION 

 We report the first study of the food habits of B. carolinensis, 

 and we increased, by more than five-fold, the number of species of 

 ectoparasites known to occur on this shrew. However, the specimens 

 of B. carolinensis that we examined were collected from a single locality 

 in less than one month. Further studies on B. carolinensis from different 

 localities, habitats, and times of the year are needed to account for any 

 temporal or spatial variation in food habits and the occurrence of ectoparasitic 

 species, and to further elucidate the differences or similarities between 

 B. carolinensis and B. brevicauda in their food habits and ectoparasite 

 assemblages. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS— We wish to thank T. M. Padgett and an 

 anonymous reviewer for comments and suggestions that improved the 

 manuscript. Financial support for portions of this research were pro- 

 vided by contract DE-AC09-76SROO-819 between the United States 

 Department of Energy and the University of Georgia. 



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