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APPENDIX. 



THE Rev. Leonard Jenyns, in a second paper on 

 the British Shrews, published in the Annals of 

 Natural History, Vol. I. p. 417, has described four 

 species, of which one is new to Britain. The 

 names and specific characters which he assigns to 

 them are as follows: 



1. Sorex rusticuS) Jen. Common Shrew. Snout 

 and feet slender ; tail moderately stout, nearly cy- 

 lindrical, not attenuated at the tip, well clothed 

 with hairs, which are very divergent in the young 

 state, and never closely appressed. 



This is the Common Shrew of the present worl^ 

 p. 123. 



2. S. tetragonuruS) Herm. Square-tailed Shrew 

 Snout broader than in the last species ; feet, fore 

 especially, much larger ; tail slender, more quadran- 

 gular at all ages, and slightly attenuated at the tip ; 

 clothed with closely appressed hairs in the young 

 state, in age nearly naked. 



