Caluromys derbianus fervidus (Thomas)
Elliott (Field Columb. Mus. Nat. Hist., Publ. No. 115, Zool. Ser., 8:5, 1907) lists as Caluromys laniger pallidus a specimen from Honduras that was acquired for the Field Columbian Museum (= Chicago Natural History Museum) by purchase from Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, New York. On August 4, 1951, in the Chicago Natural History Museum, we found in the catalogue of the collection of Recent mammals an entry for a male Caluromys bearing catalogue number 6 and listed as from "San Pedro Sula [Honduras]. From Wards. Mounted". In the collection of study specimens there is no specimen from Honduras that was purchased from Ward's, mounted or unmounted. In the sealed, glass-fronted, exhibit cases of mammals on display there is one, and only one, Caluromys. It is presumed to be specimen No. 6. This specimen is not C. d. pallidus because it is too dark. It could be Caluromys derbianus fervidus and we tentatively refer it to that subspecies.
Caluromys derbianus pallidus (Thomas)
From Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Harris (Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 476:7, October 8, 1943) listed as Caluromys laniger centralis a female, skull and skin, No. 62702 in the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan. We have examined this specimen, the color of which is darker than in some other specimens of C. d. pallidus but lighter than that of specimens of C. d. centralis (for example, specimens from Turrialba, Costa Rica) and on basis of color we refer No. 62702 to Caluromys derbianus pallidus.
Scalopus aquaticus aereus (Bangs)
Bangs' (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10:138, December 28, 1896) name S. a. aereus was based on a single specimen that shows more than an average amount of coppery color. Jackson (N. Amer. Fauna, 38:52, September 30, 1915) and subsequent authors accord full specific rank to the specimen under the name Scalopus aereus. Blair (Amer. Midland Nat., 22:98, July, 1939) recorded, from the type locality of Scalopus aereus, normally colored individuals of Scalopus aquaticus pulcher Jackson. Previously, Scheffer (Kansas State Agric. College, Exp. Bull., 168:4, August 1, 1910) reported that in his examination of 100 individuals of Scalops [= Scalopus] aquaticus from Manhattan, Kansas, there were two individuals "that were suffused all over with rich golden brown." Because our examination of the type specimen of Scalops texanus aereus Bangs reveals no features additional to coppery color that differentiate aereus from other individuals of Scalopus aquaticus pulcher Jackson (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 27:19, February 2, 1914) we conclude that Jackson's name and Bangs' name (Scalops texanus aereus) apply to the same subspecies. Bangs' name has priority and the correct name, therefore, for the populations of moles that in recent years have been designated as Scalopus aereus Bangs and Scalopus aquaticus pulcher Jackson will be Scalopus aquaticus aereus (Bangs). This name combination was previously used by Miller (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 79:8, December 31, 1912).
Scalopus aquaticus australis (Chapman)
Quay (Jour. Mamm., 30:66, February 14, 1949) recorded Scalopus aquaticus from Springhill Plantation, 10 miles south-southwest of Thomasville, Georgia. He stated that the specimens were intermediate between the subspecies S. a. australis and S. a. howelli, but did not refer the specimens to either subspecies. The locality whence the material was obtained is approximately half way between the geographic ranges, as previously known, of S. a. australis and S. a. howelli (see Jackson, N. Amer. Fauna, 38, September 30, 1915).
The specimens recorded by Quay probably are two females in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History bearing Catalogue Nos. 18136 and 18262 and labeled as from Springhill Plantation, Thomas County, Georgia. We have examined these specimens and find that they resemble S. a. howelli in narrowness across the upper tooth-rows, but that they resemble S. a. australis in length of tail (22, 24), in shortness of maxillary tooth-row (9.5, 9.5), and in convex dorsal outline of the skull. Accordingly, we refer the specimens to Scalopus aquaticus australis.
Sorex cinereus cinereus Kerr