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FAUNA AMERICANA. 



folds or lobes one above the other, the inferior of 

 which corresjDonds to the entrance of the meatus 

 auditorius ; tail rather swollen, slipjhtly quadran- 

 gular; lips, feet, and tail, flesh-coloured, the last 

 of these parts having sometimes a brownish com- 

 plexion. 



Inhabit Europe and the United States. A 

 specimen in the Philadelphia Museum, No. 896, 

 taken near Philadelphia. 



Species. 



3. Sorex parvus. Say. Long's Exped. to the 

 Rocky Mountains, vol. i. p. 163. 



Char. Essent. Brownish-cinereous above ; be- 

 neath cinereous; teeth blackish; tail short, of 

 moderate thickness. 



Dimensions. From the tip of the nose to the 

 root of the tail, two inches three-eighths ; length 

 of the tail three quarters of an inch. 



Description. Body above brownish-cinereous ; 

 beneath cinereous ; head elongatec' ; eyes and ears 

 concealed ; whiskers long ; the longest nearly at- 

 taining the back of the head ; nose naked, emar- 

 ginate ; front teeth black ; lateral ones piceous ; 

 feet whitish, five-toed; nails prominent, acute, 

 white ; tail short, subcylindric, of moderate thick- 

 ness, slightly thicker in the middle, whitish be- 

 neath. The specimen is a female. 



Inhabits Missouri, near Council Bluffs. 



