58 SORECID^C. 



79. Sorex Perroteti 



DUVERNOY, Mag. Zool. 1842, pi. 47. 



THE NEELGHERRY PIGMY-SHREW. 



Descr. Back, deep blackish-brown; belly, pale; limbs and feet, brown; 

 palms and plantse clad with hairs ; ears large, conspicuous. 



Length, head and body, 1 T * inch ; tail, T ^-ths. 



This minute shrew was first sent from the Neelgherries by M. 

 Perrotet. I have taken it there myself ; and have also seen what at the 

 time I took for the same species in Mysore, at Madras, and at Jalna 

 in the Deccan. Possibly other minute shrews occur in Southern India. 



80. Sorex micronyx. 

 BLYTH, J. A. S. XXIV. 338. Cat. 25. 



THE SMALL-CLAWED PIGMY-SHREW. 



Descr. Claws very minute ; feet and tail, nearly nude ; fur, paler and 

 more chesnut than^any of the other small shrews, and more silvery beneath. 



Length, head and body, If inch ; tail, 1J ; hind foot, if. 



This species inhabits the Western Himalayas, having been procured 

 in Kumaon and at Mussoorie, where many were picked up dead during 

 a fall of snow. 



The next species differs from all the previous ones in having the teeth 

 black, and Wagner makes it the type of his section, Paradoxodon 

 (Suppl. IV. 805). 



81. Sorex melanodon. 

 BLYTH, J. A. S. XXIV. 33. Cat. 255. 



THE BLACK-TOOTHED PIGMY-SHREW. 



Descr. Allied to S. Ilodgsoni ; colour an uniform fuscous, scarcely 

 paler below ; feet and tail nearly naked ; ears and snout livid ; claws 

 white ; teeth, piceous, white-tipped. 



Length, head and body, 1J ; tail, J-g- ; hind foot, T 8 ths. 



A single specimen of this remarkable little shrew was obtained by 

 Blyth from a house in Calcutta. Blyth indicates two other Himalayan 

 shrews, J. A. S. XXVIII. 255 ; and in the late edition of Hodgson's 

 Collection, are enumerated the following species not described : 



