University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 7, No. 6, pp. 479-487
April 21, 1954
BY
J. KNOX JONES, JR.
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1954
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 7, No. 6, pp. 479-487
Published April 21, 1954
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1954
25-2530
by
J. Knox Jones, Jr.
Because military service will interrupt my study of Nebraskanmammals, I am here placing on record certain information on thegeographic distribution of several species—information that isthought pertinent to current studies of some of my associates. Mostof this information is provided by specimens recently collected byme and other representatives of the University of Kansas Museumof Natural History, although specimens from other collections providesome of the records herein reported. The other collections arethe Biological Surveys Collection of the United States National Museum(USBS), the Hastings Museum (HM), the Nebraska Game,Forestation and Parks Commission (NGFPC), the University ofCalifornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), the Universityof Michigan Museum of Zoology (MZ) and the University of NebraskaState Museum (NSM). Grateful acknowledgment herebyis made to persons in charge of these several collections for lendingthe materials concerned. Specimens mentioned in the following accountsare in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History,except as otherwise stated. All measurements are in millimeters.Color terms are those of Ridgway (1912). A part of the funds forfield work was made available by the National Science Foundationand the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Sorex cinereus haydeni. (Baird). Cinereous Shrew.—Two maleshrews were trapped on April 7, 1952, among rocks along an oldrailroad fill, 4 mi. N, 1/2 mi. E of Octavia, Butler County, thus extendingthe known geographic range of S. c. haydeni approximately 60miles southward from a line connecting Perch, Rock County, Nebraska,with Wall Lake, Sac County, Iowa (see Jackson, 1928:52-53),and providing the first record of occurrence in the Platte River Valley.Two additional specimens, taken on July 17, 1952, are from2-1/2 mi. N of Ord, Valley County, along the Loup River, a tributaryof the Platte from the north.
Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). Short-tailedShrew.—J. S. Findley and I, in a forthcoming paper, review the distributionof Blarina brevicauda in the Great Plains region, recordingB. b. carolinensis from the extreme southeastern and southwestern[Pg 482]counties of Nebraska. A series of five shrews of this species recentlyobtained from three miles south and two miles east ofNebraska City in Otoe County, average significantly smaller in boththe cranial and the external measurements than typical B. b. brevicaudaand fall well within the range of carolinensis. Ave