. American animals: a popular guide to the mammals of North America north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals -- North America. Marsh Shrew 4. Southern Shrew. S. longirostris Bachman. Externally very much like the common shrew, but with the snout and skull much larger, and the third unicuspid tooth smaller than the fourth. Range. Bertie Co. and Raleigh, North Carolina. 5. Fisher's Shrew. S. Jisheri (Merriam). Similar but larger and duller. Range. Dismal Swamp, Virginia. A2. TAIL VERY LONG ( INCHES) AND HEAVY 6. Long-tailed Shrew. S. macrurus Batchelde
. American animals: a popular guide to the mammals of North America north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals -- North America. Marsh Shrew 4. Southern Shrew. S. longirostris Bachman. Externally very much like the common shrew, but with the snout and skull much larger, and the third unicuspid tooth smaller than the fourth. Range. Bertie Co. and Raleigh, North Carolina. 5. Fisher's Shrew. S. Jisheri (Merriam). Similar but larger and duller. Range. Dismal Swamp, Virginia. A2. TAIL VERY LONG ( INCHES) AND HEAVY 6. Long-tailed Shrew. S. macrurus Batchelder. Above, dark slate, below, smoky gray. Easily known by the very thick tail with a rather long pencil of hairs at the tip. Range. Higher parts of the Adirondacks and Catskills. B. VERY SMALL; LENGTH — INCHES. APPARENTLY ONLY FOUR UNICUSPID TEETH ON EACH SIDE, THE THIRD BEING EXCEEDINGLY SMALL 7. Hoy's Shrew. S. hoyi Baird. Brown above, shading to gray beneath, a touch of fulvous between the front le.^s. The smallest North American mammal. Minnesota to Nova Scotia and the Adirondacks. Marsh Shrew Sorex albibarbis (Cope) Also called Water Shrew. Length. 6 inches. Description. Shaped like the common shrew but much larger, with a body nearly the size ot a Blarina. Colour, blackish slate, chin whitish beneath clouded with dusky. Tail, dark above, white below. Range. Labrador and Canada to the Adirondacks and Alleghanies of Pennsylvania. From Minnesota west occurs a browner species (S. palustris) and still others on the Pacific coast. 187. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939; Cram, William Everett, 1871-. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
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