COMMON SHREW 



INSECTIVOIIA. 



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SORWIDAi. 





Genus, Sorex. (Linn.) 



Generic Character. — Incisors \:\, u^jper ones curved, with a spur or pointed 

 cusp behind ; at their liase, lower ones, horizontal in position, produced, with 

 their ui^per edge denticulated ; premolars ?/.?, upjier ones decreasing in size 

 from first to last, first lower one smaller than second ; tips of all the teeth 

 deeply stained with brown. Snout attenuated, fur sliort, soft, and silky ; tail 

 long ; feet fonned for running. 



COMMON SHREW. 



SHREW MOUSE. 



Sorex vuhjoris. (Tiinn.) 



Specific Character. — Reddish mouse-colour aliovc, ])aler beneath ; tail some- 

 what quadrangular, ratlier shorter than the body, not ciliated beneath. 



Sorex vulgaris, Linn. Mus. Adolpli. Frid. 10, 1754. Nathusius, "Weigm. 



Archiv. I. 1838, 46. Blas. Saugth. Deutsch. p. 129. 



NiLss. Skand. Faun. }>. 75. 

 ,, tetraf/onurus,IlKH-!.i. Obs. Zool. 48, 1780. Jenyns, Mag. Zool. Bot. II. 



p. 24, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1838, p. 417, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1841, V. 7, p. 261. 

 ,, araneus, Bell, Brit. Quad. p. \W. Macg, Brit. (Juad. p. 123. 



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