156 WATER SHREW. Class I. 



upper part of the body black ; the throat, breast, 

 and belly ash-color ; beneath the tail is a trian- 

 gular dusky spot. 



[Mr. Sozverby in his " British Miscellany," 

 p. 103. Tab. xlix. has described and figured an 

 animal of this genus resembling the Water Shrew 

 in some respects, but distinguished by being of 

 an uniform greyish black color, and having a re- 

 markable fringe of shortish white hairs on the 

 under side of the tail, which is blackish with 

 a white tip. The legs and toes are also fringed 

 underneath with white hairs. It was caught 

 in a ditch in Norfolk, by W. J. Hooker esq.] 

 Ed. 



