338 UROTRICHUS GIBSII. 
without metallic reflections, which are confined 
to the posterior border of the black, and are 
violet, changing to steel-blue. Length, 3°30 
inches. Female, without the metallic markings; 
tail-feathers tipped with white. Bothhavethesame 
northern and southern range as Selasphorus rufus. 
Urotrichus Gibsi, Baird (Western slope of 
Cascade Mountains); Urotrichus Talpoides, Tem- 
minck.—This singular little animal, that appears 
to be an intermediate link between the shrew 
and the mole, at present is only known as an 
inhabitant of two parts of the world, widely re- 
moved from each other—the one spot being the 
western slope of the Cascade Mountains, in North- 
west America, the other Japan. There are, as 
far as I know, but two specimens extant from the 
Cascade Mountains—one in the Smithsonian Mu- 
seum at Washington, the other a very fine speci- 
men that I have recently brought home, and now 
in the British Museum.* I have carefully com- 
pared the Japanese gentleman with his brother 
from the Western wilds, and can find no difference 
whatever, either generically or specifically. In 
size, colour, shape, and anatomical structure they 
are precisely alike. 
The habits of the little fellow from Japan I 
* Vide Illustration. 
