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tlio Abboy luiiis, that I found the roniaius of a slirew upoii the 
rivers bank, which I at once recognised as an individual of this 
species. Althongli so long dead as to render it impossible to pre- 
serve it as a specimen, the beautiful silvery white of the under 
parts with its well defined boundery, together with other minor 
distinctions, left no doubt as to its species. It affords me great 
pleasure to be alile to record a recent instance of the occurrenL of 
this sp.,cies ; for although 1 am strongly of opinion Unit it is more 
freipieiit than is generally supposed, it Ls e.\treniely difliciilt to 
meet with. 
O.iUEi) SiiuEw {Sorex remlfer, Geoir.)-Tl,roiigli the kindiie.ss of 
Mv. h. d'forgate, of Sparliam, I am enabled to record the occurrence 
of this shrew at «parham, where it was found dead in the rectorv 
garden, on the 7th of October. Soiiie years ago Mr. Xorgate 
lound an oared slirew in the same garden ; it was dead, and near 
It lay a common shrew, d'lie specimen which 1 now e.xhibit 
timers somewhat from any wliich 1 liave iireviously seen, par- 
ticularly in the absence of the reddish yellow patch umler the 
throat; Professor JJell, however, who has e.xamined it, considers 
the tuft of white hairs at the ears, as well as other less obvious 
characteristics, <iuite siillicient to identify it with 6'. ramfer. The 
ciha which Iringe the feet and under surface of the tail have 
now drietl close to the skin, but when fresh were .piite obvious, 
ibis species was first described as Jlritish in Sowerby’s Br 'it. M\sc. 
(p. 49), under the name of 5. ciliatus, from a specimen found in 
ortolk by the late Sir Win. Hooker. In the number of Loudon’s 
Mag. of Nat. Hist, for September, 1832, l\rr. Yarrell describes a 
slirew which he says is probably identical with Sowerby’s 5. 
cthatus; he objects to the specific name, as indicating a character 
possessed alike, by all the water shrews, and shows it to be the same 
species as the continental Sorex remifer. Since Sir AVni. Hooker’s 1 
know of seven other Norfolk specimens; 1 am inclined to think, how- 
ever, 1 remarked of the water shrew, that a sharp look out would 
prove it to be a far moi-e common species than is generally supposed 
Ihe first time 1 met with it was in 1855, at Fakenham, where 1 
shot one in a shallow sti-eai;i of water, as it ran along the gravel at 
the bottom; Hr. A anvil saw this specimen and identified it. Oct. 
I87ii. 
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