82 SORICID.E— SOREX 



A third European species, S. alpinus of Schinz, inhabits the 

 Pyrenees, Alps, Harz Mountains, Riesengebirge, and Car- 

 pathians ; it is a dark, slate-coloured shrew, about the size of 

 S. araneus, but with a long tail of about the same length as the 

 head and body, and distinctive skull and teeth. 



THE COMMON SHREW. 



so REX ARANEUS, Linn^us. 

 SO REX ARANEUS CASTA NE US (Jenyns). 



1667. Mus ARANEUS, the Erdshrew ox Field Mouse, Christopher Merrett, Pztiax, 167 

 1758. SOREX ARANEUS, Carolus Linnaeus, Sy sterna Natur(B, x., 53; xii., 74, 1766; 



described from Upsala, Sweden ; Bingley ; Donovan ; Fleming ; Jenyns ; Bell 



(ed. i); MacGillivray ; Thomas, Zoologist, 1895, 63; Millais ; Barrett-Hamilton, 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., May 1905, 506; Trouessart (1910) ; Collett ; not S. 



araneus of Schreber and others == Hermann's Sorex (now Crocidura) russula. 

 1764. SOREX VULGARIS, Carolus Linnaeus, Museum Regis Ado Ip hi, &c., 10 ; renaming 



S. araneus; Nathusius, Wiegmann's Archiv. fi'ir Naturgeschichte, 1838, i., 45 ; 



Owen ; Blasius ; Fatio ; Bell (ed. 2) ; Woodward and Sherborn ; Flower and 



Lydekker ; Lydekker ; Johnston ; Winge. 

 1780. SOREX TETRAGONURUS, Johannes Hermann in E. A. W. Zimmermann's 



Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, &c., ii., sp. 312, 383 ; described from Strass- 



burg, S. Germany; Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, Supplement, iii., pi. clixi5, 1781 ; 



Hermann, Tabula Affinitatum Animalium, &c., 1783, 79, footnote; MacGillivray 



(appendix); Clermont; PAsion, Fauna of Scotlatid, 1880,9. 

 1792. SOREX QUADRICAUDATUS, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 208 ; renaming 



S. tetragonurus of Hermann. 



1800. SOREX ARANEUS ALBUS, J. M. Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's Algemeitie 

 Uebersicht der vierfiissigen Thiere, ii., 722 ; described from a white variety. 



1801. SOREX CUNICULARIUS, J. M. Bechstein, Gemeinnutzige Naturgeschichte Deutsch- 

 lands, ed. 2, i., 879 ; described from Thuringia, Germany. 



1828. SOREX CORONATUS, P. A. Millet, Faune de Maine et Loire, i., 18 ; described 



from Blou, Maine et Loire, France. 

 1828. SOREX PERSONATUS, P. A. Millet, Op. cit., i., 18, footnote; a rejected MS. 



name for .S". coronatus ; not .S". personatus of L Geoffroy, 1827. 

 1832. SoREX CONCINNUS, J. Wagler, Oken's Isis (Jena), 54 and 275 ; described from 



Bavaria. 

 1832. SOREX RHINOLOPHUS, J. Wagler, /<?«r«. cif., 54 ; described from Bavaria. 

 1832. SOREX MELANODON, J. Wagler, /<?«/-«. cit., 54 ; described from Bavaria. 

 1835. Hydrosorex TETRAGONURUS, G. L. Duvemoy, Man. Soc. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 



(Strassburgj, 17th June and 2nd December 1834, 19 and 33, pi. i., figs. 2 and 2b, 



pi. ii., fig. V. 

 1838. CORSIRA VULGARIS, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 1837, 124, published 



14th June 1838. 

 1838. SoREX tetragonurus, var. /3, s. CASTANEUS, Leonard Jenyns, Ann. Nat. 



Hist., i., 424, August; ii., 43, 1839 ; vii,, 266-267, 1841 ; see also Mag. Zool. and 



Bat., ii., 39, 1838 ; described from Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, England. 



