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PERFUMING SHREW. 
Sorex Caerulescens. S. cinereo-ccerulescens, siihtm paUidior, ro^* 
tro Cauda pedibnsqiie carneis. 
Blue- grey S. with flesh-coloured snout, feet, and tail. 
Sorex Pilorides. Museum Leverianum, vol. i. No. i. p. 31. ^. 8. 
Perfuming Shrew. Pennant Qiiadr. 2, p. 222. 
Musaraigne musquee de I'lnde. Buf, siippL 7. p. 2S1, pL 7. 
This measures from nose to tail near eight 
inches : and the tail is about three inches and a 
half long: the snout is very long and slender; 
the upper jaw extending far beyond the lower : 
the upper fore teeth are short; the lower long, 
slender, and incurvated : the eyes small, the ears 
semitransparent, short and round: the fur soft 
and fine, and the whole animal is of an elegant blue 
grey colour, paler .beneath : the end of the nose and 
the feet are naked and rose-coloured. This animal 
diffuses a musky small, so extremely powerful as to 
penetrate almost every substance which it touches. 
Mr. Pennant informs us, that he has been as- 
sured, from good authority, that it has been 
known to make wine in a well-corked bottle un- 
drinkable, merely by passing over it. This seems 
to be the same animal with that described and 
figured in the 7th supplemental volume of the 
Count de Bufl^bn's Natural History, under the 
title of Musaraigne musquee de VInde, which is 
said to have been brought by Mons. Sonnerat from 
Bengal: the tail, however, in this specimen seems 
shorter than in that before described, though 
