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2-3 blunt denticulations, as in Amphisorex ; intermediate teeth 4-5, the 
first two of which are pretty equal in size, the last wholly rudimentary, 
and standing inwards to the first large grinder : 13. B. hrevicaudus, Say, 
tab. 52 : 14. B. Harlani, Duv., tab. 53, is perhaps, as the author con- 
jectures, identical with S. parvus, Say. In the appendix, Sorex leuco- 
don is described and figured, tab. 54. We hope that the author of this 
distinguished contribution to the Monography of the Shrew-mice will soon 
give us the promised continuation of his work. 
Blasius remarks (Bericht fiber die 19*® Yersamml. der Naturforsch. 
p. 87), that after the examination of several specimens of Sorex svaveo- 
lens which were collected in the Crimea, on the estate of Pallas, this 
species is identical with 8. etruscus. Of this Savi had already remarked, 
that the side gland was wanting in it, and that its musk smell proceeded 
from the excrements. From another observation of Blasius, 8. Gmelini 
does not seem different from 8. pygmceus. 
Rfippell, in the Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 133, described a 8orex indicus, 
var. cinereo-cenea, from Schoa. The dimensions were all the same as in 
the Indian specimens, only the colour was different ; upper side, feet, 
and tail, dark grey passing into red-brown, with a sort of metallic gloss ; 
under side ash-grey; whole length 7", of which the tail occupies 1-3. 
The 8. Jlavescens stands nearest it in point of colour, but the tail is 
only 1-4. 
Temminck has described already one species of the Shrew-mice of 
Japan, Crossopus platycephalus, Faun. Japon., p. 23; it is a third 
bigger than our Water Shrew-mouse, dark bro^vn above, dark grey 
beneath. 
Gray has made known two species of Shrew-mice from India, in the 
Annals of Nat. Hist. x. p. 261. — 1. Crossopus himalayicus ; slate- 
coloured black, with longer and white-tipped hairs on the sides and 
rump ; lower part of the throat and the middle of the belly rusty brown ; 
tail scaly, with adpressed dark brown hairs above, and elongate rigid 
whitish hairs beneath ; feet rather naked ; teeth white ; body 5^ inc., tail 
3". This, from its white teeth and naked feet, is not a Crossopus, but 
a Croddwra. 2. Corsira nigrescens ; blackish lead-colour washed with 
rufous ; chin and beneath pale and rather more rufous ; whiskers dark ; 
claws white, ears hid in the fur ; cutting teeth brown at the tip ; body 
3" 6'"; tail 1" 4'": from India. 
In conclusion, I may remark, that I possess a specimen of the 8. varius, 
from which I observe, that it agrees in the teeth with 8. araneus ; but, 
from the want of the long undulated hair on the tail, it differs from all 
the species of the Crocidura : the sub-genus Myosorex of Gray is thus 
established. On the other hand, 8. varius is not, as Gray imagines, 
identical with cinnamomeus, as I have convinced myself by the ex- 
amination of specimens of both at Berlin. In them, also, the tail is 
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