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SORICID^— NEOMYS 



DIMENSIONS IN MILLIMETRES:— 



Exceptional variation is somewhat difficult to recognise in an 

 animal so naturally variable. Albinism is certainly rare, but a specimen 

 thus affected is stated to have been included in the collection of Eyton 

 (see Mag. Zool. and Bot, 1838, 540), and Bechstein's variety albus was 

 based upon a snow-white example. Witchell and Strugnell mention "a 



