82 SORICID^— SOREX 



A third European species, S. alpinus of Schinz, inhabits the 

 Pyrenees, Alps, Harz Mountains, Riesengebirge, and Car- 

 pathians ; it is a dark, slate-coloured shrew, about the size of 

 S. araneus, but with a long tail of about the same length as the 

 head and body, and distinctive skull and teeth. 



THE COMMON SHREW. 



SOREX ARANEUS, Linnaeus. 

 SOREX ARANEUS CASTA NE US (Jenyns). 



1667. Mus ARANEUS, the Erdshrew ox Field Mouse, Christopher Merrett, Pinax, 167 

 1758. SOREX ARANEUS, Carolus Linnaeus, Systema Natura, x., 53; xii., 74, 1766; 



described from Upsala, Sweden ; Bingley ; Donovan ; Fleming ; Jenyns ; Bell 



(ed. i); MacGillivray ; Thomas, Zoologist, 1895, 63; Millais ; Barrett-Hamilton, 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, May 1905, 506; Trouessart (1910); Collett ; not S. 



araneus of Schreber and others = Hermann's Sorex (now Crocidurd) russula. 

 1764. SOREX VULGARIS, Carolus Linnaeus, Museum Regis Adolphi, &c., 10 ; renaming 



S. araneus; Nathusius, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturgeschichte, 1838, i., 45 ; 



Owen ; Blasius ; Fatio ; Bell (ed. 2) ; Woodward and Sherborn ; Flower and 



Lydekker ; Lydekker ; Johnston ; Winge. 

 1780. SOREX TETRAGONURUS, Johannes Hermann in E. A. W. Zimmermann's 



Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, &c., ii., sp. 312, 383 ; described from Strass- 



burg, S. Germany ; Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, Supplement, iii., pi. clix^, 1781 ; 



Hermann, Tabula Affinitatum Animalium, &c., 1783, 79, footnote; MacGillivray 



(appendix); Clermont; PiXston, Fauna of Scotland, 1880,9. 

 1792. SOREX QUADRlCAUDATUS, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 208 ; renaming 



S. tetragonurus of Hermann. 



1800. SOREX ARANEUS ALBUS, J. M. Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's Algemeine 

 Uebersicht der vierfUssigen Thiere, ii., 722 ; described from a white variety. 



1 801 . SOREX CUNICULARIUS, J. M. Bechstein, Gemeinnutzige Naturgeschichte Deutsck- 

 lands, ed. 2, i., 879 ; described from Thuringia, Germany. 



1828. SOREX CORONATUS, P. A. Millet, Faune de Maine et Loire, i., 18 ; described 



from Blou, Maine et Loire, France. 

 1828. SOREX PERSONATUS, P. A. Millet, Op. cit., i., 18, footnote; a rejected MS. 



name for S. coronatus ; not 5. personatus of L Geofifroy, 1827. 

 1832. Sorex concinnus, J. Wagler, Oken's Isis (Jena), 54 and 275 ; described from 



Bavaria. 

 1832. SOREX RHINOLOPHUS, J. Wagler, /(?ar«. cit., 54 ; described from Bavaria. 

 1832. SOREX MELANODON, J. Wagler, /oKA-^. cit., 54 ; described from Bavaria. 

 1835. Hydrosorex TETRAGONURUS, G. L. Duvemoy, Md7n. Soc. Mus. d'Bist. Nat. 



(Strassburg;, 17th June and 2nd December 1834, 19 and 33, pi. i., figs. 2 and 2b, 



pi. ii., fig. v. 

 1838. CORSIRA VULGARIS, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 1837, 124, published 



14th June 1838. 

 1838. SOREX TETRAGONURUS, var. §, s. CASTANEUS, Leonard Jenyns, Ann. Nat. 



Hist., i., 424, August ; ii., 43, 1839 ; vii., 266-267, 1841 ; see also Mag. Zool. and 



Bot, ii., 39, 1838 ; described from Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, England. 



