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NOTIOSOREX EVOTIS. 



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82 mm. ; tail vertebrae. 26 mm. ; hind foot, 10.5 mm. j ear, 6.5 mm. Mean 

 of 3 alcoholics from San Diego, Tex. (as measured hy Thomas) : Head 

 and body, 56 mm.; tail vertebra?, 28 mm.; bind foot, 10 mm. Skull of 

 type specimen: Total length (inclnding front incisors), 17.3 mm.; great- 

 est breadth, 8 mm. 



General remarl:s, — JSFotiosorex cmirfordi is either a very rare animal or 

 very local and difficult to capture, as only a few specimens have found 

 their way into museums, and most of these were collected in Duval 

 County, Texas, by Mr. William Taylor. The Department of Agriculture 

 collection contains one from San Diego, Texas, collected by William 

 Lloyd; one from San Antonio, Texas, collected in 1890 by Mr. H. P. Att- 

 water, and there is one in the Merriam collection from San Bernardino, 

 California, collected April 19, 1886, by Mr. F. Stephens. The latter 

 is the only one known from California and has not previously been 

 recorded. 



While this paper is passing through the press two specimens have 

 been received from Santa Anita in the southern part of Lower California. 

 They were collected by J. Ellis McLellan, May 13 and 18, 1895. 



The type specimen of crawfordi was described as an alcoholic in 

 very bad condition. It is now little more than a skeleton, but the skull 

 is in good condition, except that the occiput has been injured. The 

 color of the type as described by Baird from the alcoholic specimen was 

 " b'ght chestnut brown above." This is the color of the alcoholic San 

 Diego specimens. But no dependence can be placed on the color of 

 alcoholic Shrews, since most of them change to chestnut or reddish 

 brown. The skin from San Antonio lacks the chestnut and is nearly 

 uniform plumbeous, slightly browner above. The specimen from San 

 Bernardino, Calif, which was at first assumed to be an undescribed 

 species, agrees so closely with the San Antonio specimen that I am 

 unwilling to separate it even subspeciflcally. It is plumbeous above, 

 paler below, with the hairs of the back faintly washed with brownish. 

 Thus the only two specimens of ^otiosorex from the United States that 

 have not'b'een in alcohol are plumbeous, washed with brownish instead 

 of chestnut, while all the alcoholics that have been examined (about 

 half a dozen) have the ux)per parts strongly washed with chestnut. 



Skulls of NoUosorex crawfordi from San Antonio and San Diego, 

 Texas, are identical with that of the type. The skull from San Ber- 

 nardino, Calif., differs from the type in the following points : Size slightly 

 smaller; muzzle more abruptly narrowed anteriorly; angle of tooth 

 row (seen in profile) greater at junction of molariform teeth with 

 unicuspidate series; large upper premolar larger (outer side longer and 

 transverse diameter greater). But these differences are not sufficient 

 to warrant separation. 

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