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================================================================== UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 1, pp. 1-68, figures 1-18 -------------------- December 10, 1955 ---------------------

Speciation of the Wandering Shrew

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 9, No. 1, pp. 1-68, figures 1-18 Published December 10, 1955

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1955 [Illustration: union label] 25-7903

Speciation of the Wandering Shrew

JAMES S. FINDLEY

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 4

MATERIALS METHODS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4

NON-GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION 7

CHARACTERS OF TAXONOMIC WORTH 8

PELAGE CHANGE 9

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION 9 Pacific Coastal Section 9 Inland Montane Section 11 Great Basin and Columbia Plateau Section 12 Summary of Geographic Variation 13

ORIGIN OF THE Sorex vagrans RASSENKREIS 16

RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER SPECIES 26

CONCLUSIONS 60

TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS 62

LITERATURE CITED 66

FIGURES

FIGS. 1-2.--CRANIAL MEASUREMENTS 5