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furnished with long waved hair, and therefore these species are to be 
ranked under Crocidura. S. pulchellus will also belong to this division, 
as its teeth are snow white. 
Duvernoy has added a copious Supplement to his earlier 
Treatises on Macroscelides Rozeti, in the Mem. de Strash. hi. 
p. 50. 
It treats of the skeleton and the structure of the teeth, the formation 
of the snout, the gland of the tail, the digestive apparatus, and the female 
parts of generation. It is -rich in personal observations, and in deep 
acquaintance with the literature. A plate shows the anatomical pecu- 
liarities mentioned. 
Talpina. — Temminck has, a short while ago, given the 
description of a new genus, Urotrichus, which he announced 
some years since. 
It is to be found, in the Dutch language, in the Instituut of Verslag. 
van het K. N. Instit. van Wetenschapp., Amst. 1842, p. 212 ; and in 
French, in the Faun. Jap. p. 20 ; also in Guerin’s Magas, de Zool. 1842, 
Mammif. pi. 55. Head elongated, with a long thin snout naked at the 
end, formed of two cylinders ; ears and eyes concealed by fur ; the feet 
naked, the anterior like those of the Mole. The tail measures id of 
the length of the body, thick, scaly, and covered with long bristles ; teeth 
36, whereof | incisors, the upper formed as in the Wilchuhol. (The 
skull and teeth, unfortunately, are very indistinctly figured). The 
Zygoma is present. The only species is the U. talpoides, of the size of 
our Water Shrew-mouse, with soft, velvety, glittering, dark brown fur. 
Plentiful in Japan, never in the level, but in hilly regions, where it digs 
like the Mole, but does not cast up hillocks. 
Japan has also a peculiar species of Mole, called by Temminck Talpa 
Wogura. It is, like our own, but with only six instead of eight incisors 
in the lower jaw, and of a light brown colour, which is brighter on the 
sides, and becomes reddish on the belly. On all the Japan islands. At 
Sikok a black variety is found ; at Kiusiu a white. 
Baclimann has defined five species of the genus Scalops, 
hitherto known as containing one only. 
His descriptions are to be found in the Journ. of Philadelph. viii. 1, 
p. 58, and 2, ^292. — 1. Scalops Townsendii, Nutt.; 44 teeth; fur dark 
above and beneath, black under the usual admission of light (the hairs 
are greyish-black till towards the point) ; tail sparingly covered with 
short hair; body 7^"; breadth of fore-hand 7'"> Another specimen, 
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