56 Mammals of Eastern Asia 
race with thinner but not shorter hair, the color "mouse gray" 
above, ''smoky gray" below. 
CJwdsigoa smithii parca in Burma is said not to inhabit very 
dense forest but to live in the foothills in more open country. 
C. s. furva, on the contrary, has been taken in forest at a "damp, 
oozy spot" under logs and rocks near a small mountain stream. 
The feet are brownish instead of whitish as in true smithii. 
C. h. lowei, with rounded, unflattened braincase (like C. sodalis) 
is wholly dark gray with the final % inch of the tail white. 
The Oriental Short-tailed Shrews, Blarinella, are known 
only from the region about the eastern end of the Himalayas — 
Tibet, upper Burma, Szechwan, Kansu, and western Tonkin. 
Three forms, quadraticauda, wardi, and grisclda, have been rec- 
ognized. Their likeness to the American Short-tailed Shrews, 
Blarina, is more apparent than real, Blarinella being anatomi- 
cally much more closely related to Sorex. The body is rather 
stout, the tail slender and about half as long as head and body. 
The external ears are very short. The color is brownish gray 
with silver reflections; in the race wardi, first recorded from 
Sikkim, dark smoky gray. The length of head and body varies 
from 2% to 3 inches, tail l 1 /! to 1% inches, hind foot less 
than % inch. 
Blarinella quadraticauda was discovered first in northern 
Szechwan. The type specimen was one of those anomalous 
creatures with one more tooth in one side of the head than in 
the other. In the normal condition these Shrews have 5 unicuspid 
teeth in each side of the upper jaw. Ward's Short-tailed Shrew, 
B. q. wardi, occurs also between 5000 and 10,000 feet in north- 
eastern Burma and Yunnan. B. q. griselda is still known only 
from a single individual from Kansu, 10,000 feet. 
The Old World Water Shrews, Neomys fodiens, are found 
principally in Europe and western Asia. But N. argenteus occurs 
at Lake Baikal in Siberia, and N. f. brachyotis near Kopal. The 
measurements of N. argenteus are: head and body 2% inches, 
