128 SORICID.E— NEOMYS 



THE WATER SHREW. 



NEOMYS FODIENS (Schreber). 

 NEOMYS FODIENS B [CO LOR (Shaw). 



1667. Mus ARANEUS, the Erdshrew, or Field Mouse, . . . alter dorso nigro 

 ventreq: albo, Christopher Merrett, Pinax, 167. 



1762. MusARAiGNE d'eau, L. J. M. Daubenton, Bisi. de VAcad. Roy. des Set. (Paris), 

 211, pi. I, f. 2, 1756 ; described from Burgundy, France. 



1 77 1. SOREX FODIENS, Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of Quadrupeds, 308, sp. 236, 

 from Pallas's unpublished plates; also, British Zoology, ed. 4, i, 126, 1776 

 (Warrington); London issue, 1776, no; ed. of 1812, i, 155, pi. xi. ; a 7iojne?i 

 7mdum, being without description and not used in binomial sense, therefore 

 inadmissible in zoology. 



1776. SOREX AQUATICUS, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursystems Supplements und Register 

 Band, viii., pi. ii., described from France and based on Bufifon ; not Sorex aquaticus 

 of Linnseus, 1758, 2)^ = Scalops aquaticus. 



1777. SOREX FODIENS, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, iii., 571, pi. clxi., for 

 date see Sherborn, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 1891, 589 ; described from Berlin, 

 Germany ; Hermann in Zimmermann, Specimen Zoologicce Geographicce, etc., 1777, 

 500 ; also, Geographische GescJiichte des Menschen, etc., 1780, ii., 383, sp. 314 ; 

 Bingley ; Fleming; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; MacGillivray ; Clermont; Beddard. 



1777. SOREX DAU^BENTONll, J. C. R. Erxlebcn, Sy sterna Reg?ii Animalis, 124, 

 naming Daubenton's Musaraigne d^eau. 



1780. SOREX CARINATUS, Johannes Hermann in E. A. W. Zimmermann's Geogra- 

 phische Geschichte des Menschen, etc., i., 383, sp. 3x4 ; described from Strassburg, 

 Germany ; see Hermann, Tabula Affijiitatum Animalium, etc., 1783, 79, sp. 5, and 

 Observationes Zoologiccc, 1804, 47 ; Duvernoy, Man. Soc. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 

 (Strassburg), 17, June and December 1834, published 1835 (date from Jenyns), and 

 LVnstitut (Fans), vi., No. 226, 112, April 1838 (a summary of his paper read 

 before the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Strassburg, 30th January 1838). 



1 79 1. SOREX BICOLOR, George Shaw, Shaw and Nodder's Naturalist's Miscellany, 

 ii., pi. 55, and index No. 55 ; described from Oxford, England (date from Sher- 

 born, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., April 1895, 375-376). 



1792. SOREX BICAUDATUS, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 208 : renaming Hermann's 

 S. carifiatus from Pennant ; described from Strassburg, Germany. 



1793. SoREX EREMITA, F. A. A. Meyer, Zool. Annalen, \., 323 ; described from 

 Thuringia, Germany. 



1793. SOREX FLUVIATILIS, auct. et Op. cit, perhaps from J. M. Bechstein, MS. ; 



described from Thuringia, Germany. 

 1800. SoREX FODIENS ALBUS, J. M. Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine Ueber- 



sicht der vierfiissigen Thiere, ii., 723 ; described from a white variety. 

 1805. SOREX CILIATUS, James Sowerby, British Miscellany, 103, coloured plate 49 ; 



described from Norfolk, England ; Bingley. 

 1809. Fringed-tailed Water Shrew, W. Bingley, Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, 



231, and Synopsis, 38, sp. 22 = 5". ciliatus of Sowerby. 

 1811. Sorex lineatus, Isidore G&o^i-oy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. iVa/. (Paris), xvii. 



181 ; described from Paris, France. 

 tBii. Sorex REMIFER, Isidore Geoffroy, op. cit., 182; Jenyns; Bell (ed. i) ; 



described from Abbeville, Somme, France. 



