328 Rev. L. Jenyns on some German Shrews. 



tumid, or the snout broader, than in the water-shrew, though 

 nearly as much so as in that species. 



(5.) S.pygmaus, Pall. A single individual of this species, 

 first discovered by Pallas, and within these few years so well 

 described and represented by Gloger*, exists in the collection. 

 The species is remarkably distinguished from every other I 

 am acquainted with by its small size, slender form, long nar- 

 row head, with the snout very much produced and attenuated. 

 The distance between the eyes is contained more than two 

 and a half times between the eye and the extremity of the 

 snout. The whiskers are very long. The dentition is for the 

 most part similar to that of the 8. rusticus described in a 

 former paper. The fifth lateral incisor above is visible from 

 without, and not out of the line. The ears are slightly larger 

 than in the S. tetragonurus, and somewhat less concealed 

 by the hair. The feet are much more slender than in the spe- 

 cies last mentioned, but rather stronger than in the S. rus- 

 ticus : the toes very bristly, the bristles projecting further 

 beyond the roots of the nails than in either of the two species 

 just alluded to : the claws sharp and curved. The tail is 

 rather thick, roundish, and well clothed with longish hairs, 

 which stand out at the sides, and form at the extremity a mo- 

 derately long pencil projecting two lines or more beyond the 

 bone. The colour of the upper parts is reddish brown or 

 rusty ; that of the lower greyish white, tinged with red. The 

 lips and feet are white, tinged with reddish. The tail bright 

 fulvous above, paler beneath. 



Dimensions. 



In. Lin. 

 Length of the head and body 2 2-j- 



of the head 91 



-of the tail 1 4 



— of the hind foot 5 



of the fore foot 2$ 



of the ears l 3 f 



From ear to eye 3-| 



From ear to the end of the snout 8-J- 



This species appears to have been formerly involved in some 

 obscurity ; but its history has been well cleared up by Gloger, 

 * Nov. Act. Leop. torn. xiii. 2. p. 481. pi. 25. 



