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8 . NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
[5.] 3. Sorex Parvus. (Say?) Small Shrew-Mouse. 
Sorex parvus. Say. Long’s Expedition, vol.i, p. 163 ? 
Sorex, No. 89. Museum ov tHe ZooLoGicaL Sociery. 
There is a specimen of a shrew-mouse in the Museum of the Zoological Society, - 
‘which answers nearly to the description of the Sorex parvus by Say, except that 
its tail is considerably longer. Not to add unnecessarily to the number of specific 
names, I have adopted Mr. Say’s, until a comparison of authentic specimens shall 
determine whether it belongs to the same or a different species. Forster, in the 
Philosophical Transactions, mentions the Sorex aranews as an inhabitant of 
Hudson’s Bay. The large naked ears of that species would distinguish it at once 
from the S. parvus. 
Duscriprion of the specimen in the Zoological Museum. 
Form.—Ears very short, and indicated only by a brownish tuft of hair, deotiet than the rest of 
the fur. Muzzle more slender than that of S. palustris, but not so much so as that of 8. For- 
steri. The tail is apparently cylindrical the greater part of its length, pointed and perhaps 
slightly compressed at the tip. The fur, from its root to near the tip, has a dark blackish-gray 
colour, but from its closeness only the tips are seen, and on the back they have a brownish- 
black colour, on the head and sides brownish-gray, and on the belly ash-gray. The feet 
have a brownish tinge. ‘The pestis of the teeth are dark reddish-brown. 
DIMENSIONS, 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of head and body , 5 ‘ 2 9 
On tail . ‘ ‘ a ‘ i 1 9 
Bn from nostrils to incisors : ve 0 1k 
Mr. Collie, surgeon of his Majesty’s ship Blossom, caught a Shrew-mouse on 
the shores of Behring’s Straits, which he describes as having a dark brownish-: 
gray colour above, and a gray tint beneath. It measured, from the tip of the snout 
to the root of the tail, two inches and four lines, and its tail was one inch long. 
This specimen agrees still more nearly with Mr. Say’s description than the one in 
the Zoological Museum does, and if it is allowed to be of the same species, it gives 
to the Sorex parvus a range of twenty-three degrees of latitude. 
