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REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



a leaden gloss, are very distinctly tipped with dark glossy brown. 

 The brown is less distinct on the bell}^ than on the throat and upper 

 surface. 



Measurements. — Average of specimens from Monroe, Knox and 

 Lawrence counties: Total length, 102.8mm. (4*1/8 in.); tail, 22.2 

 mm. (14/16 in.) ; hind foot, 12.6 mm. (1/2 in.). 



Skull and teeth. — The skull is slightly smaller than typical 

 brevicauda but does not differ from it in any essential respect. 

 Skulls from Mitchell average 22 mm. in greatest length and 12 mm. 

 in greatest breadth. 



Range. — The Carolina shrew has a range extending from the 

 gulf states north to central Indiana and an east and west distribu- 

 tion from the Atlantic to Arkansas. Indiana localities are : New 

 Harmony, Southern Knox County, Bicknell, Mitchell, Bloomington, 

 Worthington. Terre Haute, Putnam County, Brookville, Switzer- 

 land County, Ohio County, Dr. Merriam has recorded a shrew 

 from Richmond as B. brevicauda (typical). Of the typical forms 

 I have no others from farther south than Winona Lake, However, 

 the specimens from southern Indiana cannot be regarded as typical 

 Caroline }isis, and there is an intergrading of the two forms through- 

 out the state, but especially in the central portion. The average size 

 of specimens from southern Indiana is less than of those from the 

 northern part of the State, but the differences are not constant and 

 I have relied chiefly on color in separating the two subspecies. 



Habits. — What has been said concerning the habits of the north- 

 ern form of the short-tailed shrew applies with equal force to the 

 southern form. As far as I am aware, their habits are in all re- 

 spects, similar. 



BLARINA PARVA (Say), 

 SMALL SHREW. 



Sorex parvus Say, Long's Expedition to the Rocky ]\Its,, Pt, I, 

 p. 164, 1823. 



Sorex cinereus Bachman, J'ourn. Acad, Nat. Sci., Phil,, Vol. 7, 

 p. 373, 1837. 



Sorex harlani Duvernoy, Mag, de ZooL, 2d Ser., Vol. 4, pp, 37- 

 41, 1842. 



Baird, Mam. N. Am., p. 56, 18>57. 

 Blarina exilipcs l^aird. Mam, N. Amer., p. 51, 1857. 



Evermanri and Butler, Proc, Iiid. Acad. Sci, for 1893, p. 

 132, 1894. 



Blarina cinerea Baird, Mam. N. Am., p, 56, 1857. 



