MAMMALS—SORICINAE—BLARINA EXILIPES, 
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BLARINA EXILIPES, Baird. 
Sr. Co.—Small. Fur full, longest hairs measuring 2 lines. 
sbout five-eighths the length of the skull. 
Color above, hoary olive-brown, with a chestnut tinge. Beneath, grayish-white. Tail bicolored. 
Tail about 0.60 of an inch. 
Feet very small ; the anterior not 3} lines ; the posterior 5, or 
Head and body, less than 
2 inehes. 
Size very small; body slender. 
5. cinereus, 
Ear small and concealed in the fur, apparently much as in 
Fur full, compact, longest hairs measuring about two lines. Feet very small ; 
anterior contained one and a half times in the posterior, which are not five eighths the length 
of the skull. The hand, however, appears larger. The soles, as far as can be ascertained, are 
hairy towards the heel, as in S. cinereus and other short-tailed species. 
tubercle behind the posterior hair. 
anti-penultimate articulation. 
with short hairs. 
Color.—The upper parts are of an olive chestnut-brown, or, perhaps, a light liver-brown, with 
a slight purplish tinge and a hoary appearance, caused by the light bar near the tips of the 
hairs. Beneath, grayish or ashy white, with a tinge of yellowish anteriorly. The tail is 
There is a seventh 
The first toe appears unusually short, barely reaching the 
The tail is very short, not as long as the head, thin, and coated 
bicolor. 
The skull is broader anteriorly than in the long-tailed shrews. The dental formula is 
tists 30. The anterior upper incisors have a basal conical process, scarcely to be 
called a hook, which comes down as far as the lateral teeth, and is nearly as large as the first 
one. There is no internal lobe and the teeth are considerably separated. The first lateral tooth 
is rather smaller than the second, and the third little more than half as long as the latter; a 
slight diastema anterior to the first upper molar barely allows the fourth lateral to be seen. 
The lower anterior incisors have very obsolete dentations on the cutting edge. 
points of all the teeth are well colored, of a dark chestnut ; darkest én the tips. 
The crowns and 
Measurements. 
No. 640. No. 641. No. 631. No. 639. 
Inches. | Lines. | Inches. | Lines. | Inches. | Lines. | Inches. | Lines 
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1 Measurements taken before skinning. 
