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the Baltic, mentioned by M. de Selys Longchamps, measure 

 7 inches 1 line in total length ; body, 3 inches 6 lines ; 

 tail, 3 inches 7 lines. 



This Shrew inhabits the banks of brooks, rivers, and 

 stagnant waters of almost the whole of Europe. Is not 

 uncommon in parts of England, and has been found in 

 Scotland, but not in Ireland. It is rare in the South of 

 France, and in the centre and South of Italy. 



Sorex ciliatus. 



Sorex ciliatus, De Selys, Micromm. 



Sorex remifer, Bell, Brit. Quad. ; Desm. Mamm. Sp. 238 ; Schinz, 

 Europ. Faun. vol. i. p. 28. 



Description. — Incisors toothed ; teeth coloured at their 

 points ; upper parts of the body almost black ; parts be- 

 neath ash-brown or red-brown, passing insensibly into 

 these shades from the colour of the parts above ; throat 

 clear ash ; a tuft of white hairs on the upper lobe of the 

 ear ; feet covered with very short, ashy hairs, and fringed 

 with stiff, adpressed, greyish hairs ; tail almost as long as 

 the body, nearly black, compressed for nearly its entire 

 length, composed of scaly rings, and displaying beneath a 

 fringe of stiff ashy hairs, adapted to serve as a sort of oar 

 in swimming ; snout thicker than in S. tetragonurus ; 

 whiskers black. 



Entire length, 5 inches 3 lines ; body, 3 inches ; tail, 

 2 inches 3 lines. 



This species, which nearly approaches the foregoing, is 

 distinguished from it by the darker colour of the belly, 

 the absence of a marked line of separation between the 

 colours of the upper and lower parts of the body, by a 

 white spot on the ear, and by wanting the small spot of 

 that colour behind the eye. In rare instances, the belly 

 is dirty white, and the white spot on the ear is wanting. 



