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Species. 



2. Sorex (tremens, Linn. Gmel. Daubent. Mem. 

 de I'Acad. dcs Sciences, 17.56, p. 212, pi. 5. la 

 Museiraigne, Buffbn, hist. Nat. t. 8. pi. 10, fig. 1. 

 Vicq. d'Azyr, Syst. Anat. des Anim. t. 3. pi. 1. p. 

 .33. Geoff. Ann. Miis. t. 17. p. 203. pi. 2. fig. 2. 

 Schreb. tab. 160. Foetid Shrew, Penn. Quadr. p. 

 307. No. 23,5. 



Chat\ Essent. Ears large and naked, having 

 within two folds or lobes placed one above the 

 other; colour mouse gray, paler beneath, ap- 

 proaching sometimes yellow or brown; tail square, 

 a little longer than the body. 



Dimensions. Total length one inch eleven lines : 

 of the head, eleven lines and a half; of the ears, 

 two lines ; of the tail, one inch six lines ; of the 

 fore arm, five lines ; of the fore-feet, including the 

 nails, three lines and a half; of the leg, five lines 

 and a half; of the hind feet, six lines. 



Description. Ordinary weight of the animal, 

 three drachms ; hair very fine, softer and shorter 

 than that of the mouse, which it resembles in co- 

 lour, but is a little browner on the head and body, 

 and of a deeper gray on the inferior parts ; all the 

 hairs being of a cinereous colour for the greater 

 part of their length, and brown at their extremity, 

 mixed with a light teint of yellow above, and 

 upon the sides of the head and body, and of a gray 

 colour, mixed with a light teint of yellow, beneath 

 the body ; ear within large and naked, having two 



