92 MamMatia OF INDIA. 
GENGS NYCTOGALE. 
Head and skull as in Soricide, but with palmated feet and compressed 
tail, as in Myogalide. Special characteristic, large pads on the soles of 
the feet, which form sucking discs. 
No. 147. NYCTOGALE ELEGANS. 
The Thibet Water-Shrew. 
Hapitat.—Moupin in Thibet. 
DeEscrIPTION.—-Fur of two kinds, a soft under down of slaty grey 
colour through which pass longer hairs, grey at the base with white tips, 
“causing the animal to vary considerably in appearance according as 
these hairs are raised or laid flat ;” ears quite concealed, and without a 
conch ; tail stout, longer than the body, quadrangular at the base, then 
triangular, and finally flattened ; feet large and palmated, with large 
pads on the soles, depressed in the middle, forming sucking discs, which 
are a peculiar characteristic of this animal. 
SizE.—Head and body about 3} inches; tail about 4 inches. 
Though this is not properly an Indian animal, I have thought fit to 
include it as belonging to a border country in which much interest 
is taken, and which has as yet been imperfectly explored. 
GENUS CORSIRA. 
Of Gray, Amphisorex of Duvernoy ; differs in dentition from the last in 
having the lower quasi-incisors serrated with three or four coronal points, 
and the anterior point of the upper incisors not prolonged beyond the 
posterior spur, tipped with ferruginous; the lateral small teeth in the 
upper jaw are five in number, diminishing in size from the first backwards. 
Tail cylindrical, not tapering, and furnished with a stiffish brush at the 
extremity. The common British land-shrew is of this type. 
No. 148. CoRSIRA ALPINA. 
The Alpine Shrew (Jerdon’s No. 84). 
Hapitat.—Darjeeling. 
DESCRIPTION.—Deep blackish brown, very slightly rufescent in certain 
lights ; tail slender, nearly naked, very slightly attenuated, compressed ~ 
at the tip. 
Si1ze.—Head and body, 2} inches ; tail 23 inches. 
