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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. 38. 



studies are obtained from each of many localities it will be impossible 

 to determine the extent and meaning of these variations. The large 

 series from the type locality is remarkably uniform in characters 

 except for seasonal color variations. Skulls from Corpus Christi are 

 slightly larger, higher through the braincase, and broader through the 

 rostrum than typical texanus, as are also two believed to have been 

 collected at Brownsville, Tex.; specimens from Padre Island are 

 very slightly longer than those from Rockport; one from Santa Rosa 

 is high and weak and has a rather short rostrum. The color of the 

 Santa Rosa specimen is much paler than that of t3rpical texanus due 

 probably to the peculiar condition of the pelage. Specimens from 

 Mason have large skulls and pale color and in these respects seem to 

 approach ^S'. a. intermedius; the skulls, however, are flat and have 

 narrow rostra. A skin without skull from Waco is inclined toward 

 intermedius in color, but is much too small for that form and has 

 been provisionally called texanus; another skin, in very soiled pelage, 

 from Longpoint, Tex., does not differ from typical texanus in size or 

 color. 



Specimens examined, — Total number, 42, as follows: 



Texas: Brownsville, 2; Corpus Christi, 2; Longpoint,!; Mason, 3; Padre Island, 

 3; Bockport (type locality), 25; San Antonio, 4; Santa Bosa, 1; Waco, 1.^ 



SCALOPUS ^REUS (Bangs). 



Coppery Mole. 



(PI. II, fig. 12; PL III, figs. 7, 7a; PL VI, fig. 9.) 



Scalops texanus xreus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, p. 138, December 28, 

 1896. 



[Scalo'psl xreus Elliot, Field Columb. Mus., publ. 45, zool. series, vol. 2, p. 390, 1901. 

 Scalops aquaticus sereus Miller & Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 30, p. 250, 

 December, 1901. 



Scalopus sereus Elliot, "Field Columb. Mus., publ. 105, zool. series, vol. 6, p. 471, 1905. 

 Scalopus aquaticus sereus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bui. 79, p. 8, December 31, 1912. 



Type locality. — Stilwell, Payne County, Oklahoma. 



Type specimen. — No. 5475, Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, 

 Bangs collection; 9 adult, skin and skull; collected August 13, 

 1896, by Thaddeus Surber. 



Geographic range. — Known only from type locality. 



General characters. — Size medium; differs from all other forms of 

 Scalopus in its color, a rich coppery snuff brown; skull weak and 

 narrow. 



Color. — Type (female), in late summer pelage: Upperparts rich cop- 

 pery snuff brown ; underparts less coppery than above, more grayish. 



1 Collection Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 



