Mammals taken Along the Alaska HighwayBaker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
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Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
Mammals -- North America
_Specimens examined._--Total 12, as follows: _Yukon Territory_:
McIntyre Creek, 2250 ft., 3 mi. NW Whitehorse, 1; SW end Dezadeash
Lake, 2; 1½ mi. S and 3 mi. E Dalton Post, 2500 ft., 1. _British
Columbia_: Stonehouse Creek, 5½ mi. W jct. Stonehouse Creek and
Kelsall River, 4; W side Mt. Glave, 4000 ft., 14 mi. S and 2 mi. E
Kelsall Lake, 1; Hot Springs, 3 mi. WNW jct. Trout River and Liard
River, 1. _Alberta_: Assineau River, 1920 ft., 10 mi. E and 1 mi. N
Kinuso, 2.
_Remarks._--Some of the shrews taken in extreme southwestern Yukon
Territory (1½ miles south and 3 miles east of Dalton Post) and in
extreme northwestern British Columbia (Stonehouse Creek and Mt. Glave)
show evidence of intergradation with the coastal subspecies, _S. o.
alascensis_, in length of hind foot. These individuals have a long
hind foot (14 and 15); the hind feet of specimens from the other
localities listed measure 13 and 14.
Alcorn, like Rand (1944:35), found the dusky shrew to be less common
than the cinereous shrew; both were taken in the same trap lines. The
dusky shrew was taken at a higher altitude (4000 feet, on Mt. Glave)
than the cinereous shrew.
Sorex obscurus shumaginensis Merriam
Dusky Shrew
_Sorex alascensis shumaginensis_ Merriam, Proc. Washington Acad.
Sci., 2:18, March 14, 1900. (Type from Popof Island, Shumagin
Islands, Alaska.)
_Sorex obscurus shumaginensis_ J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist, 16:228, July 12, 1902.
_Specimens examined._--Total 3, as follows: _Alaska_: 1 mi. NE
Anchorage, 100 ft., 1; Glenn Highway, 6 mi. WSW Snowshoe Lake, 2.
_Remarks._--These three shrews, in comparison with those referred to
_S. o. obscurus_, are paler, and the one complete skull has a slightly
higher braincase. All of the specimens were obtained in grassy areas
adjacent to the roadway.
Sorex obscurus alascensis Merriam
Dusky Shrew
_Sorex obscurus alascensis_ Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 10:76,
December 31, 1895. (Type from Yakutat, Alaska.)
_Specimens examined._--Total 22, as follows: _Alaska_: E side Chilkat
River, 100 ft., 9 mi. W and 4 mi. N Haines, 12; 1 mi. S Haines, 5 ft.,
10.
Sorex palustris navigator (Baird)
Water Shrew
_Neosorex navigator_ Baird, Report Pacific R. R. Survey, 8, pt.
1, Mammals, p. 11, 1857. (Type from near head of Yakima River,
Cascade Mountains, Washington.)
_Sorex_ (_Neosorex_) _palustris navigator_ Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna,
10:92, December 31, 1895.
_Specimens examined._--Total 20, as follows: _Alaska_: E side Chilkat
River, 100 ft., 9 mi. W and 4 mi. N Haines, 2. _Yukon Territory_:
McIntyre Creek, 2250 ft., 3 mi. NW Whitehorse, 11; SW end Dezadeash
Lake, 2; 1½ mi. S and 3 mi. E Dalton Post, 2500 ft., 3. _British
Columbia_: Stonehouse Creek, 5½ mi. W jct. Stonehouse Creek and
Kelsall River, 2.
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