CROCIDURA. 241 



Colour brown, varying from light sandy to dark and almost black ; 

 lower parts paler, the extreme tips of the hairs on the uuderparts, 

 especially on the throat, greyish. 



Dimensions of a large female: snout to vent 1*85 inches, tail 1*4, 

 hind foot 0*37, height of ear 0-2, basal length of skull 0-5. Other 

 specimens are somewhat smaller. 



Distribution. Probably throughout the Himalayas and in the 

 ranges south of the Assam valley. I cannot, however, find any 

 locality recorded west of Mussooree. Dobson refers to the same 

 form a specimen of a pigmy shrew from Ajmere, and another from 

 Sind. 



125. Crocidura psrrotteti. The Indian i*i(jmy Shreiv. 



Sorex peiTotteti, Durernoy, Mag. Zool. 1842, p. 29, pi. 47. 



Sorex melanodon, perrottetii, (ind niidipes, Blyth^ J. A. S. B. xxiv, 



pp. 33, 34 ; id. Cat. pp. 84, 85. 

 Sorex parrotteti and melanodon, Jerdon, Mam. p. 58. 

 Pachyura a3-;ameujiis, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 234. 

 Crocidura (Pachyura) macrotis, nitidofulva, nilgirica, a7id travancor- 



ensi.'^, Anderson, J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. 2, pp. 271-275. 

 Crocidura macrutis, perrotteti, and travancorensis, Anderson, Cat. 



pp. 18(3-189. ■ 



Upper teeth 18. Size very small. Ears large, covered with very 

 short hair. Feet thinly clad above. Tail not swollen at the base, 

 thin, tapering towards the end, about two thirds the length of the 

 head and body, or rather less, sparsely covered with very short 

 hairs, amongst which longer hairs are scattered. Fur short. 

 Lateral glands well developed. 



Colour reddish brov\n to dark brown, nearly black above, paler 

 and greyer below. Tail dark above, light-coloured beneath. 



Dimoisions of an adult male : snout to vent 1-78 inches, tail 

 1-12, hind foot 0-35, height of ear from orifice 0-15, basal length 

 of skull 0-45. 



Distribution. Southern India, especially the Nilgiri hills and 

 Travancore, Bengal, Assam, and Tenasserim, Not reported from 

 Ceylon. 



Habits. Nothing has been recorded about this, one of the very 

 smallest of all Mammalia. In a female Anderson found five 

 foetuses. 



This species Dobson considers doubtfully distinct from the South 

 Eut opean C. etrusca. I cannot help suspecting either that C. Jiodg- 

 soni is not really different from C. perrotteti, or else that the number 

 of Indian pigmy shrews must be more than two. The geographical 

 distribution of these two fqrms, as given above, is quite anomalous. 



Another shrew belonging to the section with 18 upper teeth has 

 been described by Anderson under the name of C. subfulva 

 (J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. 2, p. 278 ; Cat. p. 192). The types are, how- 

 ever, immature, and it is quite uncertain wliat the adults may |)ro\e 

 to be. Two specimens were found in Cutch by Dr. F. Stoliczka ; the 



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