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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. 10. 



Kespectiiig tlie pertiueiice of tbe name i^ersonatus for this Shrew, 

 Dr. G. E. Dobson wrote me from Netley, Eyghuid, under date of Octo 

 ber 5, 1885^ as follows : 



I have lately returned from Paris, Avhere I have been studying the Soricidie in 

 the Museum of the Jardin des Plautes. I have found there the type of Sorex person- 

 atus Geoff,, which is certainly = 6^. cooperi, the latter name becoming, therefore, a 

 synonym. 



Specimens examined. — Total number, 235, from the following localities : 



Province of Quebec, Canada : Godbout, 30. 

 New Brunswick : St. John, 1. 

 Maine: Sonth West Harbor, 2. 

 Nev^ Hampshire : Ossipee, 1. 

 Massachusetts : Wilmington, 2. 



New York: Adirondacks, 2; Locust Grove, 7; Montauk Point, 8; Amity ville 

 (Long Island), 1. 

 Pennsylvania: Drury Run, 3. 

 New Jersey : Tuckerton, 5. 

 North Carolina: Roan Mountain, 20. 

 Indiana: New Harmony, 1; North Manchester, 1. 

 Michigan : Ann Arbor, 4. 



Minnesota: ElkRiver, 64; Minneapolis, 12; Tower (Vermillion Lake), 1 ; Hinck- 

 ley, 2; Browns Valley, 1. 



Ontario: Rat Portage, 1; Ottawa, 1; Parry Sound, 4; Sand Lake, 3. 

 Manitoba: Carberry, 6. 

 Assiniboia: Indian Head, 4. 



Alberta: SouthEdmonton, 2 ; St. Albert,!; Island Lake, 1; Banff, 2; Canmore, 1. 

 British Columbia: Glacier, 6; Field, 3; Kamlooi)S (Cariboo Lake), 1; Sica- 

 mous, 1; Mount Baker Range, 1. 



Washington : Head of Lake Chelan, 1. 



Montana: Fort Custer, 8; Dry Creek, 1; St. Marys Lake, 3. 

 Idaho: Salmon River Mountains, 4; Saw Tooth Lake, 2. 

 Wyoming: Big Horn Mountains, 1. 



North Dakota: Portland, 2; Steele, 1; Grank Forks, 1; Bottineau, Turtle 

 Mountain, 1. 



South Dakota: Black Hills, Custer, 2; Dead wood, 1; Vermillion, 1 



SOREX PERSONATUS STREATORI subsp. nov. 



Type from Yakutat, Alaska (about latitude 59° 35'). Type, No. 73537, ^ ad., U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Department of Agriculture collection. Collected July 9, 1895, by 

 C. P. Streator. Original number, 4674. 



General char acters. — Similar to S.^jersonatus^lmt larger and darker 

 (total length, 10G.6 mm.; hind foot, 12.7 mm.); tail nearly equal to body 

 without head. 



Color. — Upper i^arts finely mixed sepia brown and dusky, the dusky 

 strongest on posterior half of back and nearly absent on sides; under 

 parts ash gray; tail sharply bicolor : dusky above and all round at tip, 

 whitish below. 



Cranial and dental characters. — SkuU and teeth as in personatus, but 

 skull averaging slightly longer. 



j\[easurements. — Type specimen: Total length, 107 mm.; tail verte- 

 bi\ne, 50 mm. ; hind foot, 12.5 mm. Average of 8 specimens from tj\)e 



