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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 198.91.37.2 on Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:37:04 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions GENERAL NOTES GENERAL NOTES GENERAL NOTES collected small mammals in northwestern New Brunswick in 1960 and 1961. Pitfall traps collected 56 Sorex and Microsorex, although prolonged snap-trapping yielded very few shrews. The pitfall traps, made by sinking tapered plastic containers, 6 inches deep by 5 inches diameter, to their rims, were patterned after those used by Dr. R. S. Hoffmann (in litt .). A rain-guard of waterproofed cardboard was fastened a few inches above each pitfall, but water still collected in the traps and diluted the oil-covered alcohol used as a preservative. This caused rapid deterioration of the skins of many specimens including the gaspensis since conspecificity is probable. This record extends the range of the Gaspe shrew southward nearly to the northernmost record of a similar species, Sorex dispar, in Maine (Starrett, J. Mamm., 35: 584, 1954). The status of these 2 species should be critically examined when adequate series of specimens from the range extremeties are obtained.