摘要 : The natural history of Sorex preblei (Preble’s Shrew) and its distribution across western North America are poorly understood. Throughout its range, new records are of high interest (for example, Long and Hoffman 1992; Kirkland an... 展开 The natural history of Sorex preblei (Preble’s Shrew) and its distribution across western North America are poorly understood. Throughout its range, new records are of high interest (for example, Long and Hoffman 1992; Kirkland and Findley 1996; Hendricks and Roedel 2002; Shohfi and others 2006). Recently, Nagorsen and others (2001) expanded the documented distribution of S. preblei to include the Okanagan region of south-central British Columbia. Although S. preblei has been capturedat numerous locations in eastern Oregon (Verts and Carraway 1998), the only previous records in Washington were from the Blue Mountains (Garfield County) in the southeast corner of the state (Armstrong 1957; Johnson and Cassidy 1997). Nagorsen and others (2001) speculated that the apparent absence of this species in the Columbia Basin ofWashington was partially an artifact of insufficient sampling. Here, we report a record of S. preblei from this gap in its documented distribution. 收起