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a2 On the White-toothed Shrew of Palestine. 
III.— The White-toothed Shrew of Pa'estine. 
By OLpDFIELD ‘THOMAS. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
Cart. G. C. SHorrripge has contributed to the British 
Museum a couple of specimens of a white-toothed shrew. 
obtained by him during the Palestine campaign. 
It appears to represent a new subspecies of Crocidura 
russula, and may be called 
Crocidura russula judaica, subsp. n. 
Like the large Central European C. russula russula, but 
colour paler and greyer. 
Fur of back about 4:2 mm. in length; very few longer 
piles present. 
General colour of upper surface rather darker than “ light 
drab,” much brighter, greyer, and less brown than true 
russula, owing to the reduction of the dark brown tips to the 
hairs and the greater degree to which the grey of the underfur 
shows through. Under surface distinctly lighter, the ends of 
the hairs whitish, with but little drabby suffusion. Tail 
rather short. 
Skull as in C. 7. russula. Third upper unicuspid rather 
broader than second, 
Dimensions of the type (taken from skin) :— 
Tail 37 mm.; hind foot 13. 
Of a specimen measured in the flesh :— 
Head and body 58 mm.; tail 38; hind foot 13; 
ear 9°5. 
Skull (of type): condylo-incisive length 21°2; greatest 
breadth 9°5; height of crown from basion 4°7; upper tooth- 
row 9°7. 
flab. Palestine. Type from near Jerusalem. 
Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 18. 8.1.38. Collected April 
1918, and presented by Capt. G. C. Shortridge. Two 
specimens, 
While the other forms of the russula group described from 
S.W. Asia are darker than the typical Huropean animal, the 
present one is readily distinguishable from ail by being 
inarkedly lighter. 
