1915.] 



SCALOPUS AQUATICUS AQUATICUS. 



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Taljpa fusca Zimmermann, Specimen Zool. Geog., p. 497, 1777. Based on ''Brown 



mole" of Pennant; type locality, New York(?). 

 [Talpa] [eiiropsea\flava Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., ed 13, p. 110, 1788. 

 Scalopus virginianus Geoffroy, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., p. 78, 1803. Type 



locality, Virginia(?). 



Talpa cupreata Rafinesque, Precis des decouv. et travaux somiologiques, p. 14, 1814. 



Type locality, ''Atlantic States" (see Atl. Journ. 1832, p. 61). 

 Scalops canadensis Desmarest, Mammalogie, l""® partie, p. 155, 1820. New name for 



Sorex aquaticus Linnaeus. 

 Scalops pennsylvanica Harlan, Fauna Amer., p. 33, 1825. Type locality unknown, 



probably Pennsylvania. 

 Talpasorex pensylvanica Lesson, Manuel de Mamm., p. 124, 1827. 

 Sc[alops] aquaticus Fischer, Synop. Mamm., p. 249, 1829. 



Talpa virginiana Blaimdlle (nec Talpa virginiana Brisson), Annales Frany. et Strang. 



d'Anatet de Physiol., tome 2, p. 219, 1838. 

 Talpa sorex pensylvanicus Blainville, Annales Fran?, et Etrang. d'Anat. et de Physiol., 



tome 2, p. 219, 1838. (In synonymy.) 

 Talpa (Scalops) Virginiana Blainville (nec Talpa mrginiana Brisson), Osteographie, 



Atlas 1, table des planches, p. 4; Insectivores, pi. 5 (skull), pi. 9 (teeth), 1839- 



1864. 



T[alpa] aquatica Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 6, 1853, p. 327, 

 1854. 



Scalops aquaticus aquaticus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 1884, p. 606, 1885. 

 Scalopus aquaticus Oberholser, Mammals and Summer Birds of Western North Caro- 

 lina (publ. by Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, N. C), p. 3, June 30, 1905. 

 Scalopus acquaticus (sic) Hahn, Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 464, 1907. 

 Scalpos (sic) aquaticus Brooks, Kept. W. Va. Boai'd Agric, 1910, p. 28, 1911. 

 Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bui. 79, p. 7, December 31, 1912. 



Type locality, — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



GeograpMc range. — Eastern United States from eastern and south- 

 ern Massachusetts, southeastern New York, and southeastern Penn- 

 sylvania, south through Virginia, and in the Appalachian Mountains 

 south through western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. 



General characters. — Size medium; color dark; skull high, heavy, 

 and angular; rostrum truncate; dentition moderate. 



Color. — Fresh winter pelage: Back fuscous, fuscous-black, or blackish 

 brown, becoming paler (drab-gray) on nose and ankles; fur at base 

 of hairs dark neutral gray; underparts slightly paler than back, 

 usually showing more neutral gray of base of hairs and frequently 

 tinged ventrally with mummy brown or fuscous. Summer pelage: 

 Slightly paler than in winter, usually more brownish; back sepia, 

 fuscous, or fuscous-black; underparts paler than back, more grayish 

 and usually tinged on chest with muromy brown or sepia. Young: 

 More grayish than adults and seldom, if ever, tinged ventrally mth 

 brown. 



SlculL — Medium in size, angular, much constricted interorbitally 

 and usually somewhat depressed postorbitally, slightly swollen 

 supraorbitally; mastoids moderately heavy; interparietal narrow; 

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