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List of Specimens. 
Catalogue 
Corresponding 
Sex & 
Locality. 
When 
Whence obtained. 
l 
Original 
Nature of 
Collected by 
Number. 
No. of skull. 
Age. 
collected. 
number. 
specimen. 
2151 
2152 
? 1065 
? 1573 
? 2063 
? 708 
Fort Bertkold, N. T. 
1856 
Lt. G. K. Warren .. 
1 In alcohol. 
F. V. Hayden 
W. S. Wood. 
Little Blue R., N. T 
Lt. F. T. Bryan_ 
Geo. N. Lawrence.. 
71 
..do_ 
2025 
Ft. Des Moines,Iowa 
Skin_ 
W. E. Moore. 
2413 
Plum Spring, Iowa. 
B. F. Odell. 
..do. 
West Nortlifield, Ill 
H. Kennicott_, _ 
-_do____ 
3104 
2 
Dane county, Wis-- 
The. Kiimlien_ 
_ do_ _ _ 
1 
BLARINA CAROLINENSIS. 
Sorex carolinensis, Bachman, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VII, 1837, 366 ; pi. xxiii, f. 1. 
Aud. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 176 ; pi. lxxv. (Same description as preceding.) 
Sorex ( Jlnolus ) carolinensis, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. V, 1855, 554. 
Sp. Ch.—S ize rather small. Fur soft and rather long, measuring 2£ lines. Feet smaller than in B. taljioides. Tail rather 
shorter than the head. 
Color dark-leaden gray, a little paler beneath, with a slight gloss of sooty brown above, and a little hoariness. Head and 
body about 2.50 inches. Tail l of an inch. Hind foot .46 of an inch. Skull about .76. 
Size considerably less than adults of B. talpoides. Body stout. Feet large. Nose moder¬ 
ately pointed. Ears small, much as in B. talpoides , concealed by the fur. Fur rather full and 
long ; hairs on the hack measuring two and a half lines. Hand large, broader than the foot? 
its claws considerably longer ; contained about one and a third times in the hinder one. Soles 
naked except on the sides of the heel. Tail short, rather less than the head, with short bristly 
hairs forming a pencil at the tip. 
Color above, a dark-leaden gray, a little paler beneath, with a faint gloss of dark, sooty 
brown on the tips of the hairs above, and a very slight hoariness produced by a paler bar near 
the tips of the hairs above, (not noticed in No. 628.) 
The skull is thick and short, not much attenuated anteriorly. Dental formula, + 
= 32. Anterior upper incisors approximate, but do not touch. No basal hook, but an 
angular lobe. First premolar tooth but little smaller than the second. The third and fourth 
considerably smaller ; the latter rather less of the two and not descending so low, placed close 
to the first molar ; the fifth tooth wedged in between their inner portions. All these teeth, 
except the fifth, with an internal lateral basal knob. The first two premolars, though more 
than twice as wide as the next two, are not much longer. The lower anterior incisors are stout 
and much curved below, with three lobed dentations on the cutting edge. The crowns and 
points of the teeth are colored dark chestnut-brown, nearly black at the tips. The outside of 
the upper molars is, however, mostly uncolored. 
