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SOREX ORNATUS. 



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Specimens examined. — Total number, 19, froDi the following localities: 



Wasbington: Seattle, 1; Steilacoom, 2; Teuino, 1; Olympic Mountains, 5; 

 Aberdeen, 1. 



Oregon: Astoria (type locality), 3; Beaverton, 1; Yaquina Bay, 1 ; Marsbfield, 

 1; Siskiyou, 3. 



SOREX MONTEREYENSIS sp.nov. 



Ty2)e from Monterey, Calif. Type, No. fllfj], ^ ad.,U. S. Nat. Mus., Department of 

 Agriculture collection. Collected October 1, 1891, by Vernon Bailey. Original 

 number, 3336. 



Geographic distribution.— Co2i&t strip and Sierra Nevada of California; 

 south on the coast at least to Morro and San Luis Obisx^o; south in the 

 Sierra to Sequoia National Park and Bast Fork Kaweah River. 



General characters. — Size large; tail long; ears prominent; color sooty 

 black, becoming brownish in worn summer pelage. Similar to 8. trow- 

 hridgii, but with slightly larger feet, broader palate, and larger molari- 

 form teeth. 



Color. — Upper parts slate black, passing insensibly into dull i)lumb- 

 eous brown on the bell}^ In worn summer pelage the back becomes 

 brownish. Tail sharply bicolor : blackish above, whitish beneath. 



Cranial characters. — Skull similar to 8. trowhridgii but slightly 

 heavier, brain case less globular, palate and interpterygoid notch much 

 broader. Molariform teeth and first and second unicuspids decidedly 

 larger and broader. The large ui^per premolar alone is diagnostic of 

 the species, contrasted with its small size in troivhridgii. 



Measurements. — Average of 5 specimens from Monterey, Calif, (type 

 locahty): Total length, 120 mm.; tail vertebrae, 52.4 mm.; hind foot, 

 14.8 mm. Average of 4 specimens from Sequoia ^^ational Park, west 

 slope Sierra Kevada: Total length, 120.5 mm.; tail vertebrae, 51.3 mm.; 

 hind foot, 14 mm. 



General remarks. — Sorex montereyensis is the California representa- 

 tive of 8. troivljridgii from the coast region of Oregon and Washington, 

 and requires comparison with no other species. 



Specimens examined. — Total number, 33, from the following localities 

 in California : 



Coast Belt: Crescent City, 2; Eureka, 1; Nicasio, Marin County, 8; Boulder 

 Creek, Santa Cruz County, 4; Monterey, 6; Morro, 2; San Luis Obispo, 1. 



Sierra Nevada (west slope) : Michigan Bluff, 1; Middle Fork American River, 

 Eldorado County, 2; Sequoia National Park (Halsted Meadows), 5; East Fork 

 Kaweah River, 1. 



SOREX ORNATUS sp. nov. 



(PI. VIII, figs. 3, '6a.) 



Type from head of San Emigdio Canyon, Mount Pinos, California. Type, No. fMf 

 ^ ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Department of Agriculture collection. Collected October, 

 19, 1891, by E. W. Nelson. Original number, 1328. 



Geographic distribution.— Moxmtd^n^ of southern California, from head 

 of Yentura River and Mount Piiios easterly to San Bernardino Peak, 

 iand south through the San Jacinto range to Santa Ysabel. 



