THE COMMON SHREW St, 



1838. Amphisorex TETRAGONURUS, G. L. Duvernoy, M(fm. Soc. Mus. cV Hist. Nat. 

 (Strassburg), Suppl., 4, 30th January ; and LInstitut (Paris), Ann., vi., No. 226, 

 112, April, 



1839. SOREX LABIOSUS, Leonard Jenyns, Ann. Nat. Hist., ii., 326, January ; described 

 fiom Frankfort-on-Maine, Germany. 



1839. SOREX MACROTRICHUS, E. de Selys-Longchamps, Etudes de Micrommalogie, 

 20 ; from Mehliss' MSS. ; 'i adult in winter. 



1846. SOREX FODIENS and SOREX REMIFER, Sir Richard Owen, British Fossil 

 Mammals, &c., 28, in error. 



1855. Amphisorex vulgaris, C. G. Giebel, Sdugthiere, 900. 



1868. SOREX vulgaris, pallidus, L. J. Fitzinger, Sitzmigsberichte der Kaiserlichen 

 Akad. der Wissenschaften (Vienna), Ivii. (1), 488; naming a pale variety without 

 locality from Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, pi. xviii. 



1869. SoREX vulgaris, varietas nuda and varietas nigra, Victor Fatio, 

 VertSrcs de la Suisse, i., 127 ; described from the Bernese Oberland and from 

 Lucerne, Switzerland, and based on worn and winter specimens respectively of 

 ^. a. tetragonurus J see Mottaz, Bull. Soc. Zool. (Geneva), i., 9, 15th November 

 1908, 153-154. 



1870. Sorex intermedius (part), E. Cornalia, Catalogo descrittivo dei Mammiferi 

 osservati fino ad ora in Italia, 27 (not seen) ; described from hills of Brianza, Italy ; 

 although quoted under S. alpinus by authors, is based upon a made-up specimen of 

 Sorex and Neomys ; see Sordelli, Atti delta Soc. Ital. di Sci. Nat., xxxviii., 362-365, 

 17th December 1899. 



1885. Crossopus REMIFER, R. Lydekker, Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia, i., 17, 

 in error. 



1890. HoMALURUS vulgaris, E. Schultz, Schriften der Naturwissenschaftlichen 

 Vereifis des Harzes (Wernigerode), v., 28. 



1900. Sorex vulgaris, "van vel. subsp. mollis," Victor Fatio, Rev. Suisse de 

 Zool., 8, 471 ; renaming his var. nigra of 1869 ; see Mottaz, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 (Geneva), i., 9, 15th November 1908, 154. 



1901. Sorex araneus ALTICOLA, G. S. Miller, junior, Proc. Biol. Soc. (Washington), 

 xiv., 43, 25th April ; described from Meiringen, Switzerland = 5. araneus nuda and 

 S. a. ftigra of Fatio ; see Mottaz, Afc?n. de la Soc. Zool. de France, xx., 24, 26, 1907. 



1905. Sorex vulgaris CRASSICAUDATUS, Victor Fatio, Archives des Sci. Phys. et 

 nat. (Geneva), xix., 201, 15th February; described from Zermatt, Switzerland 

 = S. araneus alticola of Miller; see Mottaz, Mhn. de la Soc. Zool. de France 

 XX., 24, 1907, and Bull. Soc. Zool. (Geneva), i., 9, 15th November 1908, 166. 



1905. Crossopus ou Sorex ignotus, Auct. and/<?«r;z. cit., 201-202 ; described from 

 Switzerland and based on Neomys fodiefts {s\i\i\\)->r Sorex (jaw); see Mottaz BulL 

 Soc. Zool. (Geneva), i., 9, 15th November 1908, 167. 



La Musaraigne vulgaire of the French : die Waldspitsinatis of the 

 Germans. 



As the synonomy of the species S. m-aneus has not been recently 

 published in detail, it seems useful to print it as above, and not to be 

 content with the names which have been applied only to the British sub- 

 species. There are omitted, therefore, only certain recent sub-specific 

 names, which have neither been applied to the British Common Shrew 

 nor affect the treatment of the species as a whole. These will 



