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Sciuropterus volans volans (Linn6). 
Mus volans Linn6, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 63. 
Sciuropterus volans Jordan, Man. vert., 1890, p. 324, foot note. 
Type locality. North America. 
The flying squirrel is common all through Georgia and northern 
Florida, and specimens from this region, though usually somewhat 
darker in color above, differ in no essential character from those 
from New England. Specimens from St. Mary’s, Georgia, begin to 
show the first signs of an approach to the Florida form, S. querceti , 
which is carried a little farther still by some from New Berlin, 
Florida. 
At St. Mary’s 1 found the flying squirrel tolerably common and 
took ten examples, by driving them from hollow trees and shooting 
them. Mr. Brown took thirteen at Pinetucky and four at Mont¬ 
gomery, Georgia, and thirteen at New Berlin, Florida. 
Sciuropterus volans querceti Bangs. 
Sciuropterus volans querceti Bangs, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 1896, 
vol. 10, p. 166. 
Type locality. Citronelle, Citrus County, Florida. 
The Florida flying squirrel in its extreme form is probably con¬ 
fined to southern Florida. I have found it a rare animal and hard 
to get, and, though I have often heard of it in different places, have 
never taken it myself. 
S. volans querceti is distinguished from S. volans typicus by 
more rusty coloration and much larger and more wheel-shaped 
audital bullae. I have only three specimens, all from the type 
locality. 1 
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Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bach.). 
Sorex carolinensis Bachman, Jour. Acad. nat. sci. Pliila., 1837, 
vol. 8, p. 366. 
Blarina brevicauda, carolinensis Merriam, N. Amer. fauna, 1895, 
no. 10, p. 13. 
t Sorex longirostris Bachman, type locality, swamps of the Santee River, S. C., may 
occur in eastern Georgia, although all eff orts to get specimens of it there have failed. 
Mr. Brown had this shrew constantly in mind during his whole trip, and worked every 
kind of place with every bait he could think of, but never caught one. 
