Miller.J 
184 
[Feb. 7, 
little mixed with smoke-gray, becoming clear smoke-gray on chin and 
fading insensibly into the color of the back ; dorsum of manus and pes 
sopia, paler on the inner side, the former also paler distally ; tail clove- 
brown dorsally, grayish ventrally. 
A somewhat younger topo-type ( 9 alcoholic, No. 2484 collec- 
tion of Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., same date), in rather better coat than 
the one just described, hns the back similarly colored, but is 
slightly paler in the middle of the belly and on the chin, which 
l)arts are strongly tinged with smoke-gray, contrasting lightly 
with a darker shade between the front legs. 
These two specimens resemble jirecisely in color those taken at 
Elizabethtown, N. Y., except that the male is somewhat darker 
and more uniformly colored on the belly than any of the latter. 
In fact it would be liard to find nine animals more precisely alike 
in color th;in these. 
Measurements of Sorex albiharbis (Cope). 
No. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Sex. 
c 
2 
J2 
^ 
i 
1. 
la 
1 
H 
a 
5^ 
r 
2483 
Profile Lake. N. FI. 
July 20, '93 
^ 
157 
(58 
19 
9 
43.3 
2484 
" 20, " 
V 
149 
G5 
19.6 
7 
43.6 
2428 
Elizabethtown, N. Y. 
Mav 27, •' 
155 
73 
19.4 
9 
47.1 
2429 
(J 
151 
70 
18.8 
8.6 
45.7 
2430 
" 27, '■ 
J 
152 
71 
19 
S 
46.7 
2431 
" 29. " 
g 
150 
fiS 
19 
8.4 
45.3 
2432 
June 12. " 
5 
158 
76 
20 
8.8 
48.1 
2433 
" 4, " 
S 
162 
73 
20 
8.4 
45.0 
2434 
" G, " 
$ 
155 
68 
19 
9 
43.2 
In color tliis species differs so strikingly from S. pahistris that 
a detailed comparison of the two is hardly necessary. Sorex 
pulustris is of a uniform shade throughout the ventral surface, 
while in S. albibarbis the chin is noticeably paler than the sur- 
rounding parts, a feature which suggested to Professor Cope the 
very appropi'iate specific name. In S. 2iCili''Stris the pale ventral 
stripe on the tail persists to the extreme tip, while in S. albibar- 
