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Sorex longicauda elassodon O.sj-ood. liiological Survey roUcctioii.
North Amer. Fauna, No. 21, pp. 35-36, September 26, 1901.
100597. Skin jiiui .skull. Youny adult iiuilc. Cumshewa Inlet,
Moresby Island, (^ueeu Charlotte Islands. British Cohinibia. Jiuie
13, lUOO. Collected by W. II. Osgood and E. Heller. Original
number 1030.
Wc'll-iiiadc skin in jjood cuiidition; skull perfect.
Sorex araneus euronotus Miller.
Prof. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, p. 44, April 25, 1901.
1(»1321. Skin and skull. Adult male. ^Vlontrejeau, IIautesP3^rennes,
Franec (in foothills of Pyrennes). July 8, iS'Ji). Collected by
Robert T. Young. Original number 642. Catalogued October 11
1899.
Well-niailc skin in good condition; skull jicrfect.
Sorex (Microsorex) eximius Osgood. Biological Survey collection.
North Amer. Fauna, No. 21, p. 71, September 26, 1901.
107126. Skin and skull. Adult female. Tvonek. Cook Iidet, Alaska.
September 14, 1900. Collected l)y \V. II. Osgood and E. Heller.
Original number 1395.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.
Sorex fimbripes Bachman.
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, Pt. 2, p. 391, pi. 24, tig. 8, 1S37.
=Sorex personatus I. Geoffroy. See Miller, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, p. 53,
December 31, 1895.
84556. In alcohol, skull not r(>nioved. "Was found jb}' Prof. Walter
H. flohnson] on the high Uible-land on a branch of Drury's Hun
[Peimsylvania], a tributary of the west bank of the Suscjuehannah
River." Catalogued April 29, 189S.
Condition of the specimen poor; most of the hair on the jMjsterior half of hody
lacking, and the cheeks liave been split open in order to expose the teeth.
The specimen was found in the collection in the early part of 1898 in a l^ottle
with an old-style Museum label, without number, tied around the toj), bearing
the name '' Sore.rfmliripes (type)." Tied on the specimen itself is an old parchment
lal)el with the words "Sorex Jimbrl}u'.s. Type" written on it. The writing
is perfectly legible, but very faint, and is not likely to last anotiier quarter or
half a century. The parchment has to bedried in order to read it. On April 29,
1898, this specimen was enteretl in the Museum catalogue and given the present
nund)er, 84550. No original data accompany the specimen to show where it
came from, so that tlie locality has to be taken from Bachman's description.
The writing of the old Museum label and parcliment tag is unidentifiable; both
labels were written many years ago and evidently by some one who knew the
history of the specimen.
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