58 SOEECIDiE. 



79. Sorex Perroteti. 



DuvEKNoy, Mag. Zool. 1842, pi. 47. 



The Neelqherry Pigmt-shkew. 



Descr.-^Baak deep blackish-brown ; belly pale ; limbs and feet brown ; 

 palms and plante clad witb hairs ; ears large conspicuous. 



Length head and body, 1-^ inches ; taU, -^ths. 



This minute shrew was first sent from the Neelgherries by M. Perrotet. 

 1 have taken it there myself; and have also seen what at the time I took 

 for the same species in Mysore, at Madras, and at Jalna in the Deccan. 

 Possibly other minute shrews occur in Southern India. 



80. Sorex micronyx. 



Blyth, J. A. S. XXIV. 33.— Cat. 258. 



The Small-clawed Pigmy-shrew. 



Deser. — Claws very minute ; feet and tail nearly nude ; fur paler and 

 more chesnut than any of the other small shrews, and more silvery beneath. 



Length, head and body 1| inch ; tail 1^ ; hind foot if. 



This species inhabits the Western Himalayas, having been procured in 

 Kumaon and at Mussoorie, where many were picked up dead during : a 

 fall of snow. 



The next species differs from aU the previous ones in having the teeth 

 black, and "Wagner makes it the type of his section, Paradoxodon (Suppl. 

 IV. 805). 



81. Sorex melanodou. 



Blyth, J. A. S. XXIV. 33.— Cat. 255. 



The Black-toothed Pigmy-shrew. 



Deser. — Allied to S. Ilodgsoni ; color an uniform fuscous, scarcely 

 paler below ; feet and tail nearly naked ; ears, and snout livid ; claws 

 white; teeth, piceous, white-tipped. 



Length, head and body 1| ; tail 1 Jg- ; hind foot i^ths. 



A single specimen of this remarkable Httle shrew was obtained by 

 Blyth from a house in Calcutta. Blyth indicates two other Himalayan 

 shrews, J. A. S. XXVIII. 255 ; and in the late edition of Hodgson's 

 collection, are enumerated the following species not described ; — 



