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miles. _S. c. cinereus_ seems not to occur in Ohio. _=Cryptotis micrura=_ (Tomes).--Davis (1944:376) assigned a _Cryptotis_ from Boca del Rio, Veracruz, to _Cryptotis parva berlandieri_ (Baird). Comparison of this specimen, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections, No. 2765, with 8 specimens of _C. micrura_ from various parts of northern Veracruz and with 9 _C. parva_ from southern Tamaulipas reveals that the shrew from Boca del Rio is referable to _Cryptotis micrura_. The series of 8 specimens in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History from Altamira, Tamaulipas, provides the southernmost known record of _Cryptotis parva berlandieri_. These 8 specimens are typical of _C. p. berlandieri_ and show no approach to _C. micrura_. Average and extreme cranial measurements of 7 specimens from 1 mi. S Altamira are: condylobasal length, 15.6 (15.2-16.1); palatal length, 6.6 (6.4-6.7); maxillary tooth-row, 5.7 (5.4-5.8); cranial breadth, 7.6 (7.4-8.0); least interorbital breadth, 3.5 (3.4-3.7); maxillary breadth, 5.0 (4.8-5.2). Cranial measurements of 8 specimens of _C. micrura_ from various localities in northern Veracruz (1 km. E Mecayucan, 1; 7 km. NNW Cerro Gordo, 3; Teocelo, 2; 7 km. W El Brinco, 1; 5 km. N Jalapa, 1) are: condylobasal length, 17.1 (16.6-17.4); palatal length, 7.1 (6.9-7.4); maxillary tooth-row, 6.2 (5.9-6.4); cranial breadth, 8.5 (8.3-8.6); least interorbital breadth, 3.7 (3.6-4.1); maxillary breadth, 5.3 (5.1-5.6). _C. parva_ and _C. micrura_ may intergrade but a distance of 140 miles separates the geographic ranges as now known of the two kinds and every specimen examined by me is clearly referable to one or the other of the two named kinds and shows no evidence of intergradation. _=Notiosorex crawfordi crawfordi=_ Baird.--A specimen in the Museum of Natural History from Jaumave, and one from Palmillas, Tamaulipas, collected by Gerd Heinrich, provide records of the easternmost margin of the range of this species in Mexico. Assignment is made to the subspecies _crawfordi_ on geographic grounds. The two specimens differ from a male from 13 mi. S and 15 mi. W Guadalajara, Jalisco, referred (Twente and Baker, 1951:121) to _N. c. evotis_ (Coues) in slightly larger size; however two skulls from owl pellets from 21 mi. SW Guadalajara, also referred to _evotis_ (_loc. cit._), seem to me to differ in no important way from skulls of the Tamaulipan specimens. Measurements of the Tamaulipan specimens, both
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