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TAB. XLIX. 
SO REX ciliatus. 
Fringe-tailed Water Shrew-mouse. 
Class 1. Mammalia. Order 3. Ferae. 
Gen. Char. 
Spec. Char. Black. Toes and tail with a white 
fringe underneath. 
This, probably, new species of Sorex was caught in a ditch 
in Norfolk by W. J. Hooker, Esq. It is larger than the 
Land Shrew, and different in shape and colour. It is 
about the size of the Water Shrew, but is neither so black 
on the back, nor so white on the belly, being very nearly 
of a similar tint all over; a grayish black, scarcely at all 
lighter underneath. It is remarkable for a fringe of shortish 
white hairs on the under side of the tail, which is blackish 
with a white tip. The legs and toes are also fringed under- 
neath with white hairs. 
