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20. Shrew ; two fpecimens. 



The colour is of a dufky grey above, and a dirty 

 white or yellowifh below j the nofe is very 

 long and flender ; the length from the nofe 

 to the tail, in the one fpecimen is 2^, in the 

 other almofl 2 inches ; the tail is about an 

 inch and half long, thinly befet with hairs, 

 brown above, and yellowifli below. If this 

 fpecies had no tail, I mould take it to be the 

 minute Shrew, which the Rev. Mr. Lax- 

 man found in Siberia, and which is the Sorex 

 tninutus, Linn, .. 



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