CARNARIA. bs 37 
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CiapopaTEs, Fr. Cuv.—Turpaia, Raff. 
This is a new genus from the Indian Archipelago. The teeth 
have much affinity with those of the Hedgehog ; their middle upper 
incisors, however, are proportionably shorter, and the four lower 
ones elongated ; there is also no tubercular one behind. The animal 
is covered with hair, has a long shaggy tail, and, contrary to the 
habits of other Insectivora, climbs trees with the agility of a Squir- 
rel; the pointed muzzle, however, makes the animal easily distin- 
guishable even at a distance.(1) 
Sorex, Lin. 
The Shrews are generally small, and covered with hair. Under 
this, and upon each flank, there is a small band of stiff, thickly 
set setz, from between which, in the rutting season, oozes an 
odorous fluid, the product of a peculiar gland.(2) The two middle 
upper incisors are hooked and dentated at their base, the lower 
ones slanting and elongated: five small teeth on each side follow the 
first, and two only the second. There are moreover in each jaw 
three bristled molars, and in the upper one, the last is a small tuber- 
culous tooth. This animal lives in holes it excavates in the earth, 
which it seldom leaves till evening, and lives on worms and insects. 
One species only was for a long time known in France; the 
Sor. araneus, L.; Buff. VII, x, 1. (The Common Shrew.) 
Grey above ; ash-coloured beneath ; tail square, and not so long 
as the body by one-third; teeth white; ears naked and ex- 
posed ; common in the fields, &c. This little animal has been 
accused of producing a disease in horses by its bite; the impu- 
tation however is false, and arises, perhaps, from the fact, that 
though Cats kill the Shrew, they will not eat it on account of its 
unpleasant odour. 
Daubenton has discovered the 
Sor. fodiens, Gm.; S. Daubenionii, Blumenb.; Buff. VIII, xi. 
(The Water Shrew.) Rather larger than the common one; 
black above ; white beneath ; tail compressed at the end, and not 
so long as the body by one-fourth ; the incisors red at the ends 5 
(1) The banzring ; Cladob. javanica, Fr. Cuv.; Twpaia javanica, Horsf. Jav.;— 
Cl. tana, Fr. Cuv.; Tup. tana, Horsf.;—Clad. ferruginea, Fr. Cuv.; Tup. ferrugi- 
‘nea, Raff, The genus Gymnvra of Vigors and Horsfield—Zoolog. Journ. ILI, pl. 8, 
appears to approximate to Cladobates by the teeth, and to the Shrew by its point- 
ed snout and scaly tail. There are five unguiculated toes to each foot, and tolera- 
bly stiff sete growing among woolly hairs. It can only be properly classed when 
its anatomy is known. 
(2) See Geoff, Mem. du Mus., vol. 1, p. 299. 
