TALPIDA-: 



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living in a similar manner in the region of the Pyrenees, is very 

 much smaller, has a round tail, and a proportionally longer snout. 

 Fossil remains of M. moschata occur in the Norfolk Forest bed, and 

 were originally described under the name of Palceospalax. The 

 genus is also represented in the Middle and Lower Miocene of the 

 Continent. 



Urotrichus. 1 Dentition : i f, c y, p or f , m f ; total 36. Feet 

 not webbed; manus broad. Habits fossorial. The Mole-Shrews, 



FIG. 289. The Desman (Myogale moschata). J natural size. 



as these animals are called, are represented by U. talpoides of the 

 mountains of Japan and U. gibbsi of North America. These two 

 species are small and closely allied animals ; the American form 

 (which it has been proposed to separate subgenerically as Neuro- 

 trichus) having p f . 



Uropsilus. 2 Dentition : if, c T , p f , m f ; total 34. Manus 

 narrow; tail naked and scaly. Habits cursorial. The single 

 species, U, soricipes, from the borders of Tibet, is a slate-coloured 

 animal with the external form of a Shrew but the skull of a Mole. 



1 Temminck, Fauna Japonica, vol. i. p. 22 (1842). - Milne-Edwards, 



Arch, du Ahiseum, vol. vii. Bull. p. 92 (1872). 



