1915.] 



GENUS CONDYLURA. 



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Astromyctes Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 76, 1843. 

 Astromydes Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Asiat. Soc. Mus., p. 87, 1863. 

 Condylus Van Hyning, Science, n. s., vol. 38, p. 243, August 15, 1913. 



Type species ~S or ex cristatus Linnaeus. 



Geographic range, — Southeastern Canada and northeastern United 

 States, from southern Labrador, central Quebec and Ontario, and 



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Pig. 18. — Geographic range of the species Condylura cristata. 



southeastern Manitoba, south to northeastern Illinois and northern 

 Indiana and Ohio; in the Atlantic coast region south to Virginia 

 (Dismal Swamp) and Georgia (Marlow) ; and in the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains to western North Carolina (fig, 18). 



External cJiaracters. — Body semirobust, not much depressed. Tail 

 relatively long (about equal in length to body without head), 



