ELE^kAKT SHREW. 
for having long snouts, this particular spe- 
cies may be considered as distinguished from 
the rest by a most extraordinary extension of 
the common characterisdc of these animals. 
The Elephant Shrew is simply described as 
having a very long, slender, and little nose ; the 
whole animal being of a deep brown colour. 
" This animal," Pennant remarks, has 
been very ill represented bv Petlver, in his 
Gazoph. Dec. iii. tab. xxiii. tig. 9. under the 
tible of Mus x\raneus Maximus Capcnsis.'' 
