128 SORICID^— NEOMYS 



THE WATER SHREW. 



NEOMYS FODIENS (Schreber). 

 NEOMYS FODIENS BICOLOR (Shaw). 



1667. Mus ARANEUS, the Erdshrew, or Field Mouse, . . . alter dorso nigro 

 ventreq; albo, Christopher Merrett, Pinax, 167. 



1762. MUSARAIGNE D'EAU, L. J. M. Daubenton, Hist, de PAcad. Roy. des Set. (Paris), 

 211, pi. I, f. 2, 1756 ; described from Burgundy, France. 



1771. SOREX FODIENS, Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of Quadrupeds, 308, sp. 236, 

 from Pallas's unpublished plates ; also, British Zoology, ed. 4, I, 126, 1776 

 (Warrington); London issue, 1776, no; ed. of 1812, i, 155, pi. xi. ; a nomen 

 nudum, being without description and not used in binomial sense, therefore 

 inadmissible in zoology. 



1776. SOREX aquaticus, P. L. S. Wi!\tx, Natursystems Supplements und Register 

 Band, viii., pi. ii., described from France and based on BufFon ; not Sorex aquaticus 

 of Linnaeus, 1758, ■>,(i = Scalops aquaticus. 



1777. SOREX FODIENS, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Saugthiere, iii., 571, pi. clxi., for 

 date see Sherborn, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 1891, 589 ; described from Berlin, 

 Germany ; Hermann in Zimmermann, Specimen Zoologica Geographica, etc, 1777, 

 500; also, Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, etc., 1780, ii., 383, sp. 314; 

 Bingley ; Fleming; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; MacGillivray ; Clermont; Beddard. 



1777. SOREX DAUBENTONll, J. C. R. Erxleben, Systema Regni Animalis, 124, 

 naming Daubenton's Musaraigne d'eau. 



1780. SOREX CARINA'^US, Johannes Hermann in E. A. W. Zimmermann's Geogra- 

 phische Geschichte des Menschen, etc., i., 383, sp. 314 ; described from Strassburg, 

 Germany ; see Hermann, Tabula Afflnitatum Ariimatium, etc., 1783, 79, sp. ;, and 

 Observationes Zoologicce, 1804, 47 ; Duvernoy, MSm. Soc. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 

 (Strassburg), 17, June and December 1834, published 1835 (date from Jenyns), and 

 L' Institut {Paxis), vi.. No. 226, 112, April 1838 (a summary of his paper read 

 before the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Strassburg, 30th January 1838). 



1 79 1. SOREX BICOLOR, George Shaw, Shaw and Nodder's Naturalists Miscellany, 

 ii., pi. 55, and index No. 55 ; described from Oxford, England (date from Sher- 

 born, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, April 1895, 375-376). 



1792. Sorex bicaudatus, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 2o8 : renaming Hermann's 

 5. carinatus from Pennant ; described from Strassburg, Germany. 



1793. Sorex eremita, F. A. A. Meyer, Zool. Annalen, i., 323 ; described from 

 Thuringia, Germany. 



1793. Sorex fluviatilis, auct. et op. cit., perhaps from J. M. Bechstein, MS.; 



described from Thuringia, Germany. 

 1800. Sorex fodiens albus, J. M. Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine Ueber- 



sicht der vierfUssigen Thiere, ii., 723 ; described from a white variety. 

 1805. Sorex ciliatus, James Sowerby, British Miscellany, 103, coloured plate 49 ; 



described from Norfolk, England ; Bingley. 

 1809. Fringed-tailed Water Shrew, W. Bingley, Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, 



231, and Synopsis, 38, sp. 22 = 5. ciliatus of Sowerby. 

 181 1. Sorex lineatus, Isidore GeofFroy, ^««. du Mus. d'Hist. iVa^. (Paris), xvii. 



181 ; described from Paris, France. 

 1811. Sorex remifer, Isidore Geoffroy, op. cit., 182; Jenyns; Bell (ed. i); 



described from Abbeville, Somme, France. 



