=Blarina brevicauda carolinensis= (Bachman). SHORT-TAILED SHREW.--J. S. Findley and I, in a forthcoming paper, review the distribution of _Blarina brevicauda_ in the Great Plains region, recording _B. b. carolinensis_ from the extreme southeastern and southwestern counties of Nebraska. A series of five shrews of this species recently obtained from three miles south and two miles east of Nebraska City in Otoe County, average significantly smaller in both the cranial and the external measurements than typical _B. b. brevicauda_ and fall well within the range of _carolinensis_. Average and extreme external measurements of the four adults from Otoe County, three males and one female, are as follows: Total length, 110 (109-112); length of tail-vertebrae, 24.2 (22-26); length of hind foot, 13.8 (13-14). Another specimen from 3 mi. S, 1-1/2 mi. E of Peru, Nemaha County, also is referable to _carolinensis_. These recent records indicate that the range of _B. b. carolinensis_ extends up the Missouri River Valley, approximately to Nebraska City, Otoe County. Five specimens from Louisville, Cass County, the next county northward, along the River, are referable to _B. b. brevicauda_. =Eptesicus fuscus fuscus.= (Beauvois). BIG BROWN BAT.--One big brown bat was obtained on July 23, 1952, from one mile west of Niobrara, Knox County. While not so dark in dorsal coloration as some specimens of _E. f. fuscus_ from eastern Nebraska (Cass and Sarpy counties), this specimen is noticeably darker than a series of _E. f. pallidus_ from Ft. Niobrara Wildlife Refuge, 4 mi. E of Valentine, Cherry County, being near (16" _j_) Snuff Brown as opposed to near (16' _i_) Buckthorn Brown. Previous to the taking of this specimen, Webb and Jones (1952:277) reported as _E. f. pallidus_ a specimen, saved as a skull only, which was picked up dead at Niobrara. It seems best to assign these two bats from the vicinity of Niobrara, Knox County, to _E. f. fuscus_. =Sciurus carolinensis carolinensis= Gmelin. GRAY SQUIRREL.--An adult male gray squirrel shot by Mr. Terry A. Vaughan in the heavily timbered bluffs of the Missouri River, 3 mi. S, 2 mi. E of Nebraska City, Otoe County, on October 10, 1953, provides the only museum specimen of a gray squirrel from Nebraska known to me. Residents in the area concerned report small numbers of this squirrel as still occurring on the heavily wooded bluffs along the Missouri River in Nemaha, Otoe and Richardson counties, Nebraska, at least as far north as Nebraska City. Gray squirrels from Nebraska have been reported twice before in the literature as follows: "Mouth of Platte [River]" (Baird, 1858:262) and Barada, Richardson County (Jones and Webb, 1949:312). Swenk (1908:80), while listing no actual records, says of this squirrel, "Common in the timber along watercourses of southeastern Nebraska, but greatly outnumbered everywhere by [_Sciurus niger_] _rufiventer_. I have no records west of the 97th meridian nor north of the Platte."