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WHITE-TOOTHED SHREW. 



Sorex Leucodon. S.fuscus subtus albus, cauda mediocri. 

 Dusky Shrew, white beneath, with tail of middling length. 

 Sorex Leucodon. Schreb. suppl. t 159. D. 

 White-toothed Shrew. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 228. 



THIS seems, from Schreber's figure, to be 

 about the size of the common Shrew, and is of a 

 dusky or blackish brown above, and white be- 

 neath ; the two colours pretty distinctly separated 

 from each other, even along the tail itself, which 

 is rather short : the teeth, as the name seems to 

 import, remarkably white : this, however, appears 

 rather too slight a foundation for a permanent 

 trivial name. 



SQUARE-TAILED SHREW. 



Sorex Tetragonurus. S. cauda subquadrangula. 

 Shrew with subquadrangular tail. 

 Sorex tetragonurus. Schreb. suppl. t 1^9. B. 

 Square-tailed Shrew. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 228. 



THIS seems a rather larger species than the 

 preceding: its colour is olive-brown above, and 

 pale cinereous beneath : the tail but slightly hairy, 

 and inclining to a quadrangular form. This spe- 

 cies has no fetid smell. 



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