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BLARINA CAROLINENSIS. 



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colony of the uortliern BJarina hreviccmda slionld exist iu tlie tropics 

 of Costa Eica, separated from tlie normal range of its species by a 

 land interval of several tlionsand miles — and an interval inhabited 

 exclusively by members of another subgenus. 



Specimens examined. — Total number, 436, from the following localities : 



Ontario: Eat Portage, Lake of tlie Woods, 6; Ottawa, 2. 

 Nova Scotia: Digby, 8. 



Nortli Dakota : Pembina, 1 ; Harwood, 1 ; Portland, 9. 



Minnesota: Tower, Vermillion Lake, 3; ElkEirer, 25; Steele County, 4; Orton- 

 ville, 8; Two Harbors, 1. 

 Nebraska: Valentine, 2; Kearney, 2; Blair, 1; Columbus, 4. 

 Iowa: Council Bluffs, 8; Knoxville, 2. 

 Kansas: Onaga, 2. 

 Missouri : Kimmswick, 1. 

 Illinois : Dekalb, 2. 



Michigan: Frankfort, 3; Ann Arbor, 5. 



Ohio: Sandusky, 1; Garrettsville, 11; Canton, 1; Ellsworth, 1. 

 Pennsylvania: Drurys Eun, 3; Nazareth, 1. 



New York : Adirondacks, 8 ; Locust Grove, Lewis County, 77 ; Lake George, 38 5 

 Ellzabethtown, 25; Alder Creek, 2; Syracuse, 2; Peterboro, 2; Troy, 1; Sing 

 Sing, 4; Eoslyn, Long Island, 1 ; Shelter Island, 1; Montauk Point, Long Island, 20. 



New Hampshire: Ossipee, 10; Mount Washington, 1. 



Maine: North Sebago, 1. 



Massachusetts: V\'ilmington, 15; West Dedham, 3; Wareham, 25; Province- 

 town, 2; Seekonk, 2; Marthas Vineyard, 5; Nantucket, 1. 

 New Jersey: Tuckerton, 5. 



Maryland: Baltimore, 1; Laurel, 1; Sandy Spring, 6; Locust Grove, 1. 

 District of Columbia: Washington, 35. 



North Carolina: Eoan Mountain, 16; Magnetic City, 5; mountains of Bun- 

 Conuty, 4; Old Eichmund,2. 

 Indiana: Eichmond, 1. 



BLAEINA BEEVICAUDA CAEOLINENSIS (Bachman). Carolina Blarina. 



PI. 1, iig. 1 : pi. 3, figs. 1, 5, 12. 

 Soi'cx carolinensis Bachman, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., YII, Part II, 1837, 366-370, 

 PI. XXIII, fig. 1. (From South Carolina.) 



And. aud Bach., Quadrupeds N. Am., II, 1857, 176-178, Col. PI. LXXV. 

 Blarina carolinensis Baird, Mammals N. Am., 1857, 45-47. 



Type locality. — Eastern South Carolina. 



Geographic distribution. — Austroriparian fauna from the mouth of 

 Chesapeake Bay to Arkansas. 



Habitat. — Woodlands and open fields, living in tunnels and runways 

 just beneath the surface. 



General characters. — Size intermediate between hrevicauda and parra; 

 pelage glossy and velvety, as in hrevicauda; hind foot small, as in parva. 



Color. — Uniform dark sooty plumbeous, more or less tinged with 

 brownish, especially in summer; indistinctly paler below. 



Cranial and dental characters. — Compared with B. hrev icauda the skull 

 of B. carolinensis is much smaller and lighter (averaging 19 to 20 mm. 

 in greatest length and 10 mm. in breadth) ; occipital plane more arched; 



