17a MAMMALIA. 



Sores cserulescens, Shaw, Genl. Zool. vol. i, pt. 2 (1800), p. 533, 



partim. Blyth, Cat. Mamm. A$. Soc. Mus. 1863, p 82, sed nee 

 ■ 8. crassicaiidatus, Licht. ; Jerdon, Mamm. of Ind. 1867, p. 53. 

 Sores indieus et muiinus, Geoff. St. Hil.Ann. du Mus. ; t. x vii, 1811, p.l83 ; 



et p. 186 : Mem. du Mus. d'Rist. Nat. t. i, 18 15, p. 303, pi. xv, figs. 1 & 2. 

 Sorex indieus, F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. des Mammif., livr". XL, Avril 1823, 



pi. 28 : Sykes, Free. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1830, p. 99. 

 Sorex sonnerafcii. Is. Geoff. St. Sil., Ann. duMus.i. xr, 1827, p 132. 

 Mus giganteus. Is. Geoff. St. Hil., Mem. du Mus. 1827, p. 137 (partim). 

 Sorex myosurus. Grey dc Shaw, III. Ind. Zool. vol. i, 1832, Mamm. pi. 



ix, nee C. myosurus, Pallas. 

 Sorex murinus. Gray, List of Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 78 (partimj ; 



Kelaart, Prod. Fauna Zeylanica 1852, p. 30. 

 Sorex tytleri, Blylh, Journ. As. Sob. Bene/., vol. xxviii, 1859, p. 285. 

 Crocidura (P.) waldemarii, Peters, Monatsb. K. P. Acad., 1870, p. 590. 

 Pachyura indica, Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 231. 

 Orooidura (P.) fulvocinerea, et sindensis, Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



vol. xlvi, pt. 11, 1877, pp. 263 et 266. 



Hah. ludia generally ; Ceylon ; Arakan and Burma. 



The form is rather heavy in the fully adult, bnt in the 

 adolescent it is less so : the limbs are short and stout. The 

 head slopes gradually downwards and forwards from the 

 vertex, and the snout, which varies in length, is long, but 

 slightly depressed from beyond the moustachial swelling, 

 which appears to gain in breadth as the animal advances in age, 

 the head generally becoming much heavier than it is in the 

 adolescent. The snout terminates in two somewhat tubular 

 nostrils, which are divided from each other by a sharp incision ; 

 their orifices look outwards and forwards. There is a slight 

 contraction before the eyes, followed by the considerable 

 moustachial swelling. The eyes are small. The ears are mo- 

 derately large and rounded, but of varying dimensions. 

 The hind feet and toes are rather short, but of variable 

 size, and the claws are moderately developed. The 

 snout and the chin are seminude, sparsely clad with short 

 pale hairs, but the moustachial hairs are numerous and long. 

 The ears also are only very sparsely clad along their 

 margins, and over their external aspect, with short delicate 

 hairs. The fore-limb is densely clad, almost to the wrist, but 

 immediately above the joint the hairs are short and sparse, 

 and this character is preserved by the pelage on the backs 

 of the fore-feet, while on the toes the hairs are fewer, and 

 occur only between the rings that mark their upper surface. 

 The backs of the fore-feet are also scaly. The lower half of 

 the tibial portion of the hind limb is almost nude, the hairs 

 being few and short, and this character occurs also on the 

 upper surface of the pes. The feet have thus the appear- 



