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Table 1. Relative abundance (percent of total catch) of shrews collected from 
three habitats in eight western South Carolina counties from 1981 
through 1985. 
Habitats 
Trap 
nights 
Blarina 
brevicauda 
Blarina 
carolinensis 
Cryptotis 
parva 
Sorex 
fumeus 
Sorex 
hoyi 
Sorex 
longirostris 
Pine 
49,888 
4.4 
42.2 
10.1 
0.5 
0.5 
8.4 
Hardwood 
4,916 
0.8 
- 
0.3 
2.2 
0.5 
1.9 
Flood plain 
6,600 
4.4 
- 
0.3 
1.9 
0.3 
21.3 
Table 2. Number of shrews caught in 
from 1981 through 1985. 
eight western South 
Carolina 
counties 
County 
Blarina 
brevicauda 
Blarina 
carolinensis 
Cryptotis 
parva 
Sorex 
fumeus 
Sorex 
longirostris 
Sorex 
hoyi 
Abbeville 
35 
12 
1 
Anderson 
3 
4 
Edgefield 
60 
4 
12 
Greenwood 
27 
1 
5 
McCormick 
33 
18 
6 
Oconee 
22 
1 
4 
38 
4 
Pickens 
10 
1 
13 
48 
1 
Saluda 
2 
2 
site on 26 June 1985. The third was collected 48.3 km to the east at 
Laurel Fork Creek, above Lake Jocassee in Pickens County on 29 
October 1985. All five specimens were captured in pitfalls. The nearest 
known locations for this species are 32 km to the north of the Laurel 
Fork Creek site at Cedar Mountain, Transylvania County, North Caro- 
lina (CUSC 532), and 64 km to the west of the Round Mountain site in 
Townes County, Georgia (Wharton 1968). 
The two females were collected at an elevation of 503 m in a 75- 
year-old mixed pine-hardwood forest. The first two males were collected 
at 488 and 491 m in 17-year-old loblolly pine plantations. The Laurel 
Fork Creek site is a 100-year-old hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis) forest at 
