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longer and more like that of B. florulana. I shall, of course, not 
change the standing of B. florulana as a distinct species, on this 
material, though I feel confident that some day intergradation will 
he found between B. parva and B. florulana. 
Mr. Brown took a single specimen of Blarina on Skiddaway 
Island, Georgia, which, by the way, was the only mammal he found 
on that Island, that is peculiar. This specimen, No. 6,198, is very 
large, about equaling B. carolinensis in size, measuring as follows: 
total length, 92; tail vertebrae, 17; hind foot, 11; the skull was 
broken back of the palate, but the teeth are intact. The molar-form 
teeth are large and the palate consequently narrow. The coloring 
is very different from that usual in B. parva , being a uniform sil¬ 
very gray, slightly paler beneath; the tail is short and hairy. This 
one example maybe a “freak,” but it certainly looks as if a very 
different species inhabits Skiddaway Island. 
Mr. Brown took ten specimens of B. parva at Montgomery, 
Georgia, but did not find the species at any of the other places in 
Georgia he visited. Dr. Merriam records a series from Riceboro, 
. Georgia. 
Blarina (Cryptotis) floridana Merriam. 
Blarina florulana Merriam, N. Amer. fauna, 1895, no. 10, p. 19. 
Type locality. Chester Shoal, fourteen miles north of Cape Cana¬ 
veral, Brevard County, Florida. 
The small Florida Blarina is the common shrew of peninsular 
Florida, and extends its range northward certainly to southeast 
Georgia (St. Mary’s). 
It is not difficult to trap, and lives in every kind of situation, 
though preferring the moister places. I have taken it on barren 
sand hills, in dry old fields, in hummocks, swamps, piny woods, 
under brush piles, and at the edge of the salt marsh. Perhaps its 
favorite abode is among the rushes that fringe the borders of small 
fresh-water pools, especially near the edge of the salt marsh. At 
such a place near Carterville, with only a few traps set, I caught four 
during one night. It is difficult to save in good condition the speci¬ 
mens caught, because they spoil very quickly in the hot, damp climate 
of Florida, and like all shrews they have a great fondness for eating 
each other up in the trap; usually they begin with the head. I 
