62 Mammals of Eastern Asia 
ashy with dark hair bases ; the tail is brown above, ashy beneath. 
This Shrew alone in the genus takes up an intermediate geo- 
graphical position between the northeastern and southern centers 
of Crocidura; its eastern race, shantung ensis, extends over an 
enormous territory from south of the Yangtse (lat. N. 30°) 
north to southern Jehol (about lat. N. 42°), and from the 
Yellow Sea west into Shensi and Shansi. The little species 
myoides from Ladak may be related to ilensis. C. lar of Mon- 
golia is perhaps related to ilensis. 
The Crocidura dracula group comprises brownish gray 
Shrews with a generally smoky hue and slightly paler under- 
pays. The size is as shown a page earlier. The forms tentatively 
placed here are dracula of Yunnan, kingiana of Sikkim, attenu- 
ata of Szechwan and eastward, proedax of the Likiang Range ; 
also, doubtfully, fidiginosa of southern Burma, negligens of the 
northern Malay Peninsula, aagardi of Siam, grisescens of 
Fukien, and thomasi of Korea. Crocidura attenuata, the com- 
mon Gray Shrew of China, ranges, according to Sowerby, over 
much of south China. 
Crocidura dracula of northeastern Burma, sometimes called 
the White-tipped Shrew, is generally taken below 6000 feet. 
A dark race, C. dracula mansumensis, occurs at Mansum, 
Burma. The species is present also in western Tonkin. 
It is to this group that reference has been made when discus- 
sing the dubiously classified third group of Suncus, the 
genus treated immediately prior to Crocidura. Possibly some of 
the forms there mentioned ought to be included here. 
The Crocidura rubricosa group, containing the smaller species 
and separated here purely for convenience, comprises Shrews 
colored substantially like those of the C. dracida group, though 
rubricosa itself may be a little redder. These are rubricosa of 
Assam and in the Chindwin drainage, vorax of Yunnan and 
northern Siam, rapax of Yunnan, indochinensis of southern 
Annam, grisea of Fukien, and tanakce of Formosa. Shrews 
