GENEKAL NOTES 
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GENERAL NOTES 
hoy’s shrew in labrador 
In a collection of mammals made some twenty years ago by Mr. Jewell D. 
Sornborger, and later acquired by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 
bridge, is a single specimen (M. C. Z. 13444) of Hoy’s shrew {Microsorex hoyi), 
a species not hitherto recorded from Labrador. It was captured in 1898 at the 
Moravian mission settlement of Hopedale on the northeast coast, and so con- 
siderably extends the known range of this boreal species. A careful comparison 
of the skin with other specimens from Quebec and Alberta does not reveal any 
notable differences in color or proportions. I am indebted to the Museum au- 
thorites for the opportunity of publishing this interesting record. 
— Glover M. Allen. 
A BAT NEW TO THE JAPANESE FAUNA 
On his last expedition to the East in search of new or interesting woody plants 
for the Arnold Arboretum, Mr. Edward H. Wilson captured a small bat on the 
island of Yaku (Yakushima) which lies some ninety miles south of Kagoshima 
on Kiushu, the southernmost of the large Japanese islands. This specimen in 
alcohol, Mr. Wilson has kindly presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
to the authorities of which I am indebted for permission to record it here. It 
proves to be a species of Murina, apparently identical with M. ussuriensis lately 
described by Ognew (Annuaire Mus. Zool. de I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 
1913, vol. 18, p. 402, pi. 12). This author bases his description on two specimens 
from Ussuri-land, eastern Siberia, the first a female captured April 23, 1910, at 
Dorf Ewseeivka, Kreis Imansky ; the second captured August 13, 1913, at Odarka, 
Chanka Lake. Mr. Wilson’s specimen is therefore the third to be recorded, 
and extends the known range of the species some fifteen degrees of latitude south- 
ward. It was captured in February and may therefore have been a migrant from 
the inhospitable winter climate of Ussuri and northern Manchuria to the warmer 
islands of southern Japan. The following measurements indicate close agree- 
ment in size, nos. 1 and 2 being respectively the first and second of Ognew’ s speci- 
mens, no. 3 the one here recorded: 
1 
2 
3 
Total length (about) 
68.5 
73.2 
72 
Forearm 
31.2 
32 
32.6 
Tibia 
15.8 
16.4 
16.5 
Greatest length of cranium 
16 
15.7 
16.7 
Hitherto Murina hilgendorfi Peters was the only species of the genus known 
from Japan (see Aoki, B., ‘‘A hand-list of Japanese and Formosan mammals,” 
Annot. Zool. Japon., 1913, vol. 8, p. 287). It is a considerably larger species 
(forearm 43 mm.) but with much the same general proportions. Its skull, how- 
ever, has a low sagittal crest while that of M. ussuriensis is smooth. 
-—Glover M. Allen, 
