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250 SORKX.
Specimen is in fair eDndition; some hair has fallen from the ])aek. The skull
has not lu-en removed (and the skull of a j)aratyi>e ia the one probably figured),
but the lips have bi'en cut loose and the left cheek split so that all the teeth may
be seen.
Baird had seven specimens from four different localities. The description is
based upon nos. 'A&2 and 1(577. As the latter is (i, December ;;i, ISiC).
fl4ft''5- Skill and skull. Adult. Siuuniit of Alabama Hills, near
Lone IMne, California. December 22,1890. (bllccted l)y E. AV.
Nelson. Orioinal number 181.
Well-made skin in j^ood condition; skull comiilete, but with a lar^ie section of
the brain-case broken away.
Sorex thompsoni Baird.
iManunals of North America, p. 'M, pi. 27, No. 168(), 1857.
= Sorex hoyi Baird. See Miller, North Amer. Fauna, No. 10, j^p. .SO and 4.'.,
DectMnber :U, 181)5.
IfiSd. In alcohol. Burlington, Vermont. Collected by Prof. Zatiock
Thompson. Catalogued October 23, 1856.
Alcoholic in fair condition; some sloughintr of hair about the belly: skull not
removed, but lijis loosened to expose the teeth.
No type desifjnated. Three specimens listed, the above, and 247 from. Zanes-
ville, Ohio, and 2002 from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As 1080 is fifjured on pi. 27, it is here regarded as the type. The skull litrmed
on the same plate is probably one of the paratypes.
Sorex trowbridgii Baird. Cotypes.
Maimuals of North America, p. 18, pi. 20, 1857.
¥W8' Skin and skull. Astoria, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon.
Collected by .James AA'^a^'ne. Received from Lieut. W. P. Trow-
bridge, U. S. A. Skin catjilogued July, 1855, skull flanuary, 1857.
All parts of the skin are i)resent, but it is poorly maile uj) uiid not in good
condition. The skull is badly deaneil and more or less broken about the cranium,
andthe right half of the mandible is missing.
9f>7. Skin (no skull). Same data as the above, with the addition that
it was collected on June 10, 1855. Catalogued November, 1855.
The skin of the second cotype is even worse than that of the first. It evi-
dently contained a skull, which has been removed and lost.
Baird lists four specimens by nuud)er, the above two and two from Steilacoom,
Washington. From his remarks on page 15 it is clear that tlu'iirst two form
the basis of his description. On pi. 26 one of the Oregon sj)ecimens is figured
(see explanation of plates, p. 742).
Sorex tundrensis Merriam. Biological Survey collection.
Proc. Wa.sh. Acad. Sci., II, pp. U)-17, March 14, 1900.
99286. Skin and skull. Adult. St. Michael, Alaska. September
13, 1899. Collected by W. H. Osgood. Original numbcn- 902.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.