Pete HUD. AS Hy RoE Ww, 
BIST. DADA Ge nis XXXTX. 
Br. Zoal, i, N° 32.—Hif. Quad. N° 341.— Smellie, iv. 305. 
HREW. With the head and upper part of the body dufky: 
fides of a brownifh ruft-color: eyes very fmall, almoft hid in 
the fur: ears fhort: nofe very long and flender : eeEe mandible 
extends far beyond the lower. : 
Inhabits Hud/on’s Bay, and probably Carolina, as Law/on mentions 
a Moufe found there which poifons Cats * if they eat it. It is a no- 
tion in Evgland that they are venomous: it is notorious that our Cats 
will kill, but not feed on them ; probably thofe of America have the 
fame inftiné&t: fo that their deaths in the new world muft arife from 
fome other caufe, and be falfely attributed to thefe animals. 
Mr. Graham {ent over two other fpecimens, befices that defcribed. 
They were of a dufky grey above, and of a yellowifh white beneath : 
their fize, rather lefs than the Ezgli/h kind; one being only two inches 
and a quarter long, the other only two inches ; but they feemed not 
to differ fpecifically from the other. 
The common Shrew is found in Raffa; in all parts of Sidiria, even 
in the 4réfic flats; and in Kamt/chatka. 
* Hift. Carolina, 125. 
@ Agus, HUTS 7: 
SHREW, 
67. Forrrp? 
