208 MAMMALIA. 



Catalogue. Norway. Presented by the Chi-isliana University, 

 1846. 



b 8f c. Two adults in alcohol. No history. 



Sub-Family CROSSOPIN^. 

 Genus CHIMARROGALE, Anderson, 1877. 



252. Chimarrogale himalaica. 



Ci'ossopus himalayicus, Gray, Ann, <|* Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. x, Dec. 



1842; p. 261 ; List. Mamm. B. M., 1843, p. 80 ; Blyth, Joum. As 



Soc. vol. xxiv (1855), p. 37 ; Blyth Sf Tomes, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. 



Hist., vol. xvii, 2nd ser., pp. 25 and 26 ; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind., 1855, 



p. 563. 

 Sorex himalayicus, Wagner, Schreher. Sdugeth., Suppl., Bd. v, 1835,' 



p.563. 

 Crocidura himalaica, Oray, Anderson, Proo. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 231. 

 Chimarrogale himalaica, Anderson, Anat. Sf Zool. Beseh. and Yunnan 



Expeditions, 1878, p. 139 ; pi. 5, figs. 17 to 30. 



Ilab. Himalaya (Sikkim); Yunnan (Ponsee). 



Body elongated ; snout moderately long and pointed ; broader 

 across the moustachial area in the male than -in the female. 

 Fur softj dense and velvety. The general colour of the upper 

 parts is dark grey^ richly washed with* a dark brown, almost 

 black, fuliginous, or blackish brown, almost obscuring the 

 grey colour, and the fur generally .has a finely dotted 

 appearance, due to the presence of longer scattered hairs with 

 white tips. When the fur is pulled aside, it is seen to be uni- 

 formly slaty, but all the hairs terminate in fine brown, or blackish 

 longer brown tips, with the exception of scattered, stronger, and 

 longer hairs, which have broad white tips. These hairs are 

 especially munerous on the hind quarters, where they are much 

 longer than on the other parts of the body, and they correspond 

 to the white tipped hairs of Nectogale. Under surface greyish, 

 with a silvery sheen, washed with earthy brown on the 

 throat, and the middle of the belly. Whiskers blackish or 

 even white. Hind feet large, but relatively smaller than in 

 Neclogale : the fore limb is clothed to the wrist : the hind limb, 

 in the lower half of the tibia, is scaly and partially clad with 

 short hairs. The upper surfaces of the feet are naked, with 

 the exception of the metacarpus and metatarsus, which are 

 sparsely covered with short, flattened, stiff, adpressed hairs, 

 almost white. The upper surfaces of the toes are scaly and 

 bare, with the exception of from one to six broad, stiff. 



