Mr. E. Blyth on the Indian species of Shrews. 21 



Feet and tail subnude, or thinly furred, showing the colour of 

 the skin through; browner above, whitish (or perhaps flesh- 

 coloured) below. Of two specimens in our Museum, one in spirit, 

 the other now dried, the latter was obtained by the late Major 

 Wroughton in Kemaon, the former by L. C. Stewart, Esq., of 

 H.M. 61st Foot, at Landour, where, he informs us that he 

 picked up many of them dead, on the surface of the snow, during 

 the severe winter of 1850-51. 



13. S. Perrotetii, Duvernoy, Guerin's Mag. de Zool. 1842, 

 livr. 8. We can only refer to Prof. Schinz's description of this 

 species, which is as follows: — " S. notceo saturate fusco-nigri- 

 cante, gastraeo canescente, artubus pedibusque pilosis, auriculis 

 magnis, conspicuis. Long, corporis 1" 4"', caudce 11'"." From 



the Nilgiris. We have a Darjiling female which approximates >^^ 

 this description, and may prove to be of the same species. nt^ 



Head and body 1| in. ; tail 1 in. ; hind-foot and claws ^^ in. '^ 

 Skull somewhat exceeding ^ in. Teeth white. Colour uniform 

 brown, with a slight tinge of chestnut, and scarcely paler below. 

 Feet and tail distinctly furred, besides the usual scattered long 

 hairs on the latter. Claws whitish and conspicuous. Tail 

 brown above, pale and perhaps flesh-coloured beneath; more 

 probably, however, of a livid hue, and tapering evenly through- 

 out. If new, S. HoDGSONii, nobis. 



14. S. NUDIPES, nobis, n. s. Remarkable for its naked feet 

 and very large ears ; also for the odoriferous glands on the sides 

 being strongly developed, whereas we can detect them in no 

 other of these minute species. Length of female 1 J in. ; tail 

 ly^^ in. ; hind-foot ^-i in. Ears conspicuously larger than in the 

 others; tail almost nude, save of the long scattered hairs; and 

 the fore-feet and toes of the hind-feet are conspicuously naked, 

 and apparently flesh-coloured. Fur uniform brown above (like 

 the back of Corsira vulgaris), a little grizzled and glistening; 

 the lower parts with a silvery gloss. Tail brown above, pale 

 (probably flesh-coloured) below ; somewhat thick and uniformly 

 tapering. Specimen procured at Amhurst (Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces). 



[Mr. Blyth has since received two from Pegu. — R. F. T.] 



15. S. ATRATUS, nobis, n. s. Of this we have only a headless 

 specimen, which was found, impaled upon a thorn by some 

 Shrike*, at Cherra Punji, in the Khasya Hills; but the species 



* The same fact we have observed in England of Lanius collurio 

 and Corsira vulgaris, these diminutive Shrews falling an easy prey to 

 the " Butcher-birds ;" while the larger members of the same genus are 



