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The BRASILIAN SHREW*. 



We mention this animal under the denomi- 

 nation of the Brafilian Jloreiv ; hecaufe we ai'e 

 ignorant of its proper name, and it has a great- 

 er refemblance to the ihrew than to any other 

 animal. It is, however, confiderably larger, 

 being about five inches long from the extremL- 

 ty of the muzzle to the origin of the tail, which 

 is not two inches, and, confequently, is propor- 

 tionally fhortcr than that of the common fhrew. 

 It has a pointed muzzle, and very Ihurp teeth. 

 Upon a brown ground-colour, three pretty large 

 black bands extend longitudinally from the head 

 to the tail, under which the fcrotum appears 

 hanging between the hind itct. This anirani, 

 fays Marcgrave, fports with the cats, who dif- 

 cover no inclination to eat it. In the fame man- 

 ner, the cats kill the European fhrews, but never 

 eat them. 



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* Brafilian fhrcw, with a fharp nofe and teetli ; pendu- 

 lous fcrotum. It is of a duiky colour, marked along the 

 b.icic with three broad black ftrokes. The lcna;th Irom nofe 

 to tail, five inches ; that of the tail two ; Pennant's Syiiopf. of 

 qnad.p. 309. 



Mus ar:incus figura muris ; I\Lircgi\ Erajil. p. 229 



