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JOUENAL OF MAMMALOGY 
Charles E. Bendire, who caught it at the post garden, on the Little 
Bighorn River, about 1| miles above Fort Custer, Montana (Merriam, 
C. H., North Amer. Fauna, no. 10, p. 88, Dec. 31, 1895). Since then 
four additional specimens of this rare mammal have come to light, all 
of them now being in the Biological Survey Collection. Unfortunately, 
none of these is a perfect specimen. 
On June 23, 1896, Mr. Vernon Bailey found a dead and dried shrew 
in a creek valley, 7 miles southeast of Antelope, Oregon. In his field 
notes Bailey remarks: “It may have been killed near the creek or may 
have been brought from a distance, as the valley is mainly Sonoran. 
Fig. 1. Lateral View op Rostrum and Unicuspids op Sorex personatus per^ 
sonatus (X 6) 
No. 227410, United States National Museum, Biological Survey Collection; 
from Crescent Lake, Oneida County, Wisconsin. 
Fig. 2. Lateral View op Rostrum and Unicuspids op Sorex merriami (X 6) 
No. 186441, United States National Museum, Merriam Collection; from Fort 
Custer, Montana. 
Fig. 3. Lateral View op Rostrum and Unicuspids op Sorex richardsonii (X 6) 
No. 69163, United States National Museum, Biological Survey Collection; 
from South Edmonton, Alberta. 
Perodipus tracks and holes were common all around where the Sorex 
was picked up.” From this specimen, a mere fragment of skin and 
body which has been in alcohol, I have had the partly crushed skull 
removed and find it agrees well with that of the type of Sorex merriami, 
except that it seems to have been a trifle higher through the braincase. 
The remains of a small shrew were found among the rocks on a high 
butte near Medora, North Dakota, on June 13, 1913, by Mr. Stanley 
G. Jewett. Some animal had killed the shrew and eaten its head, so 
that all available for study is the skin of the hind half of the body, the 
hind feet, and tail. The color indicates that the specim.en is with 
httle doubt Sorex merriami. 
