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~Blarina brevicauda churchi~ Bole and Moulthrop

Kellogg (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 86:253, February 14, 1939) tentatively
referred specimens of the short-tailed shrew from the mountainous parts
of eastern Tennessee to the subspecies _Blarina brevicauda talpoides_,
with the remark that they were unlike specimens of that subspecies
obtained in eastern and southern West Virginia. Subsequently, Bole and
Moulthrop (Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:109, September 11,
1942) named the subspecies _Blarina brevicauda churchi_ with type
locality at Roan Mountain, North Carolina. We have examined the
specimens in the U.S. National Museum recorded by Kellogg (_loc. cit._)
from the following localities: Shady Valley, 2900 ft. (Catalogue No.
267182); Holston Mtn., 4 mi. NE Shady Valley, 3800 ft. (Nos.
267176-267178, 267180, and 267181); Holston Mtn., 3 mi. NE Shady
Valley, 3000 ft. (No. 267179); Roan Mtn., (Nos. 267469-267475); Mt.
Guyot, 6300 ft. (No. 267183); 4-1/2 mi. SE Cosby, 3300 and 3400 ft.
(Nos. 267184 and 267185); and Snake Den Mtn., 3800 ft. (No. 267186).
Among named kinds of _Blarina brevicauda_, we find these specimens to
resemble most closely _Blarina brevicauda churchi_ and so refer them.
They are readily distinguishable from specimens of _B. b. kirtlandi_,
that occurs farther north in the same mountain range, by larger size
and longer tail. Incidentally, in the specimens that we have examined,
we do not find that _B. b. churchi_ is darker colored than other
subspecies of _Blarina brevicauda_; _B. b. churchi_, to us, is
indistinguishable in color from _B. b. kirtlandi_. Bole and Moulthrop
(_op. cit._) thought that _B. b. churchi_ was notably darker than other
subspecies from adjoining areas.

~Blarina brevicauda carolinensis~ (Bachman)

Blair (Amer. Midland Nat., 22(1):99, July, 1939) referred specimens of
the short-tailed shrew from the Arbuckle Mountain area of Oklahoma to
_Blarina brevicauda hulophaga_ and specimens from Mohawk Park, Tulsa
County, Oklahoma, to _B. b. carolinensis_. Later Bole and Moulthrop
(Sci. Publs. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:108, September 11, 1942) saw
two of the specimens from Mohawk Park and assigned them to _B. b.
hulophaga_. According to the most recent published account, therefore,
_B. b. hulophaga_ would seem to have a peculiarly discontinuous
geographic range. We have examined the material seen by Blair and by
Bole and Moulthrop (Nos. 75946, 75947