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processes of the first two grinders not tipped with that colour, nor any 
of those of the last, the red being chiefly confined to the inner processes 
in the upper grinders, and to the outer in the lower. 
FEMALE. 
Lee Ae 
Entire length, . 6 2 
Length of head, 5 al 
Wremagnot ete s se Sie hs fae toy a 
Length of fore foot,. . . .. O 5% 
Length ofhind foot, ... . 010 
Skull in length, St ids Spee ETE 
Skull in breadth, . 0 53 
It does not appear that much difference exists between Sorex ciliatus 
and Sorex fodiens, the teeth being the same in number, as well as in 
form, with some slight differences only in the proportional size of their 
lobes. The present species, however, is somewhat larger, and differ- 
ently coloured. 
The individual described above, a female, had ten teats. It was 
found dead in a wood near the Old Bridge of Don, on the 30th of 
May 1841, by Mr John MacGillivray. 
It inhabits woods and thickets with long herbage, banks, meadows, 
and the sides of rills, ditches, and pools. It swims and dives with 
ease, runs with considerable speed, burrows in moss and earth, and 
forms runs or galleries among the herbage. Opportunities of ob- 
serving its habits have not, however, occurred to me in this dis- 
trict. 
Sorex ciliatus, Sowerby, Brit. Miscell., pl. 49. 
Sorex remifer. Yarrell, Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist., v. 598. 
Sorex remifer. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim., 18. 
Oared shrew. Sorex remifer. Bell, Brit. Quadr., 119. 
3. Sorex fodiens. White-breasted Water Shrew. 
Black above, silvery-white beneath, the colours abruptly defined on 
the sides ; a large triangular patch of black between the thighs and tail ; 
a tuft of white hairs on the inner lobe of the ears (often also a white 
spot behind each eye); tail about as long as the body, square at the 
base, compressed toward the end, ciliated beneath with a ridge of stiffish 
hairs, which form a pointed tip; upper canine tooth elongated, decurved 
in the fourth of a circle, obtuse, with a prominent basal lobe; lower 
canine tooth direct, depressed, slightly ascending at the end, with a 
long, slightly-elevated festoon in-its basal half; teeth tipped with brown- 
ish-red ; young black above, greyish-white beneath ; tail rather longer 
than the body. 
This species varies so much in size and colour, as to render it expe- 
dient to describe it in its different stages. 
The body is subeylindrical, full; the head oblongo-conical, one-third 
of the length, excluding the tail, which is a little shorter than the body, 
excluding the head; the snout long, tapering, depressed, projecting far 
beyond the jaws, distinctly emarginate at the tip, grooved beneath; the 
ears are very short, rounded, with an internal upper thin, rounded lobe, 
capable of closing it like a valve, and a very small lobe at the base ante- 
riorly ; the eyes very small; the limbs very short, rather strong; the 
feet rather broad, but the toes slender; the anterior foot, with the first 
