208 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Type locality. Eastern South Carolina. 
The Carolina Blarina occurs over the whole of eastern Georgia 
and probably shades into the next subspecies somewhere in south¬ 
eastern Georgia and northern Florida. The one example I took at 
St. Mary’s was too badly decomposed to be skinned and is pre¬ 
served in alcohol. It measures as follows: total length, 99 ; tail 
vertebrae, 15; hind foot, 12.5, and has every appearance of being 
about intermediate between B. carolinensis and B. peninsulae. 
Mr. Brown took one on Ossabaw Island, one at Montgomery, and 
six at Pinetucky, Georgia. 
Blarina brevicauda peninsulae (Merriam). 
Blarina carolinensis peninsulae Merriam, N. Amer. fauna, 1895, 
no. 10, p. 14. 
Type locality. Miami River, Dade County, Florida. 
The everglade Blarina is of general distribution throughout the 
Florida peninsula. , It is, in my experience, a rare animal. I have 
caught live individuals only, all at Oak Lodge, where I found them 
living under brush piles around the clearings, and at the edge of the 
savannah. Judging by Mr. Boring’s experience at the type locality, 
it is more common in the everglades. 
B. b. peninsulae differs from B. b. carolinensis in .its blacker 
color, larger hind foot, and heavier molar teeth. 
Blarina (Cryptotis) parva (Say). 
iSorex parous Say, Long’s Exp. Rocky Mts., 1823, vol. 1, p. 164. 
Blarina parva Merriam, N. Amer. fauna, 1895, no. 10, p. 17. 
Type locality. West bank of Missouri, near Blair, Nebraska. 
The small Blarina is common in eastern Georgia, its range 
extending south, though certainly not to the southeast corner of the 
state, for at St. Mary’s I took B. floridana. 
Some specimens from Montgomery, Georgia, seem to me to 
indicate that the two forms, B. parva and B. floridana , are only 
subspecifically distinct, although Dr. Merriam did not consider the 
Riceboro specimens he records intermediate. 
The Montgomery specimens approach B. floridana more nearly 
both in size and color than they do North Carolina specimens of B. 
parva ; in dental characters they are B. parva , although the skull is 
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