Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph R. Hauser, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 7, No. 14, pp. 613-618 June 10, 1955 Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews BY JAMES S. FINDLEY UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1955 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson Volume 7, No. 14, pp. 613-618 Published June 10, 1955 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1955 25-7329 Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews by James S. Findley _=Sorex cinereus ohionensis=_ Bole and Moulthrop.--In their description of this subspecies from Ohio, Bole and Moulthrop (1942:89-95) made no mention of specimens in the United States Biological Surveys Collection from Ellsworth and Milford Center, Ohio, which stand in the literature (see Jackson, 1928:49) as _Sorex cinereus cinereus_. These two localities lie south of the geographic range ascribed to _S. c. ohionensis_ by Bole and Moulthrop. Examination of the two specimens, United States Biological Surveys Collection, Catalogue No. 70566, and United States National Museum, No. 19434, respectively, both of which are alcoholics, reveals that they are referable to the subspecies _ohionensis_ rather than to _S. c. cinereus_. This reference is made on the basis of small size, short tail (33 and 31 millimeters, respectively), and fourth upper unicuspid as large as third (the specimen from Milford Center lacks the skull). The occurrence at Milford Center provides a southward extension of known range for _S. c. ohionensis_ of approximately 70 miles. _S. c. cinereus_ seems not to occur in Ohio.