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and animals occurring 700 miles away from the typical locality are of 

 the same race. 



2. Crocidura aagaardi, sp. nov. 



Tiji^e (and only specimen examined ). Adult female, skin and 

 skull. Collected at Bang Nam, I'ataiii, Peninsular Siam, by ilr. C. J, 

 Aatjaard. Author's number 2G04'/C.B.K. 



Characters. Darker than anj' of the shrews known from tiie 

 Malay Peninsula and anj- of the small islands immediately adjacent and 

 witli much less of the brown tinge which characterises all tiiese except 

 C. (jravida of Ijangkawi.* Skull relatively broader. 



Larger and darker than tlie mainland form previouslj' described 

 from Perak, C. 'iiialaijana Uobinson and Kloss, which is markedly brown 

 in colour. Tiie skull, though smaller, most nearly resembles that of 

 C. uoris Uobinson, in robustness but is relative]}'' broader, actually so 

 as regards the anterior part of the rostrum. 



Colour. As viewed with the head of the specimen pointing to 

 the left and tlie light tailing tVoni in front, above fuscous dusliv-drab 

 ( Ridgway ) ajiparently very finely frosted in parts, tiie base of the liair 

 dark neutral grey ; below dark hair-brown. ( When placed witii tiie 

 head pointing away from the observer and towards the light the colour 

 appears darker and less brown). 



SkaU. The skull is relatively more robust than C. aoris and is 

 actually so as regards the rostrum, though tiie greater breadih is not 

 so noticeable at tlie palate expansion as in the upper part of tiie nniz/le 

 anterior to it. (Unfortunately it seems impossible to give a measurement 

 in the region where the difference is greatest wliich can be referred to 

 a definite point). , 



Measurements. Head and body, 77 ; tail, 56 ; liind-foot, s. u. 

 14.5 ; ear, 9. Skull : greatest length, 22.2 ; front of incisors to posterior 

 extremity, 23.2 ; basal length, 19.9; palatal length, 9.8; maxillary 

 tooth-row including incisor, 10.5 ; breadth of rostrum between laciiry- 

 mai foramina, 5 ; greatest breadth of palate expansion outside molars, 

 7.6; mastoid breadtii, lO.t; length of mandible including incisors, 15.1. 



RemarliS. \V'ith this specimen I have compared that from Patani 



"Kloss, Journ. Fed. Malay States Museums, vii, p. 127 (1917). 

 VOL. n, DEC. 191?. 



