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Gen. — Sorex, Linne". 

 Sorex murinus, Linne.* 

 Syn. — Sorex myosurus, Pallas, apud Schinz. 

 Sorex cserulescens, Var, Raffles ? 

 " Chinchorot" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Pinang. 

 Java. 

 Dark brownish- grey above ; beneath light brownish- grey. Feet and 

 tail flesh-coloured in the living animal, changing to cinereous after 

 death. In the young the colour is more of a bluish-grey, slightly mixed 

 with brown on the back. Length of the head and body five and half 

 inches ; tail three inches. 



Incis. ~— Canin.-i Molar, — '-— 

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The present differs from the 'Musk Shrew' of Bengal ("Choochundr,") 



in its proportionally broader, more developed, and from the head more 



diverging ear, which characters also distinguish it from Sorex nigres- 



cens, Gray, which it somewhat resembles in its colours. The smell of 



musk, emitted by the adult animal, and which in the young is barely 



perceptible, is much less intense than that of the Bengal Musk Shrew. 



Carnivora^. 

 Gen. — Ursus, Linn6 

 Helarctos, Horsfield. 

 Helarctos Malayanus, Horsfield. 

 Syn. — Ursus Malayanus, Raffles and Horsfield. 



" Bruang" of the Malays. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, Tenasserim Provinces, Assam, Nipal. 

 Colour of the young : snout and lips pale ferrugineous. Head, back, 

 and outside of the limbs black, mixed with pale rust colour, in conse- 

 quence of many of the black hairs having the point, or a part next to the 



* The following Syn. are given in Gray's List of Mam. in British Museum : Sorex 

 myosuruS) Pallas. Geoff. Ann. Mus. XVII. S. Sonneratii, and £. giganteus, I. Geoff. 

 Mem. XV. S. indicus, Geoff. Mem. Mus. I. «S\ capensis, Geoff. Ann. Mus. XVII. S. 

 Pilorides, Shaw, Mus. Lever. S. ccerulescens, Shaw, Zool. S. crassicaudatus, Licht. 

 Savigeth. 5 1 . nepalensis, Hodgson. S. moschatus, Robinson, Assam. Olivier, Voy. 

 Buffon. H. N. Suppl. VII. 



