ADDITIONS TO VOLUME II 



SORICIDtE. 



Since the account of the Soricidce (p. 76) was published, 

 many Shrews from the Hebrides have come to hand, being 

 among the fruits of the exploration of those islands organized 

 by Mr W. R. Ogilvie- Grant. On most of the islands the 

 Shrews found could not be distinguished from the corre- 

 sponding species inhabiting the mainland of Britain ; but the 

 representative of Sorex araneus inhabiting Islay proved to 

 be specifically distinct, and we described it in 191 3 as a 

 distinct species S. grantii. The account previously given 

 may now be supplemented as follows : — 



Sorex araneus castaneus (Jenyns). 



Specimens indistinguishable from this form were collected by Mr 

 R. W. Sheppard upon the islands of Great Cumbrae, Bute, Arran, 

 and Mull; these were described by us in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1913, p. 823. 

 Similar specimens were collected on Skye by Mr P. D. Montague, 

 and on Eigg by both Mr Montague and Mr D. Anderson. The Shrew 

 found by Mr Sheppard on Jura made some approach in coloration 

 towards the peculiar species discovered on the neighbouring island 

 of Islay. 



THE ISLAY SHREW. 



SOREX GRANTII, Barrett-Hamilton and Hinton. 



1913. SOREX GRANTH, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton and M. A. C. Hinton, Abstract 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 13th April 1913, p. 18, and Proc. Zool. Soc, 1913, p. 824 ; described 

 from Islay, Inner Hebrides (type an adult female collected 26th April 1912, by Mr 

 R. W. Sheppard, original number 76, B. M. No. 18. 1.9. 19.). 



Distribution :— This Shrew is known only from Islay, where a series 

 of twenty-two specimens were collected by R. W. Sheppard during 

 his exploration of the Inner Hebrides (see footnote at p. 422 above). 



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