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2o. Shrew ; two fpecimens. 
The colour is of a dulky grey above, and a dirty 
white or yellowifh below j the nofe is very 
long and {lender j the length from the nofe 
to the tail, in tjie one fpecimen is 2%, in the 
other almoft 2 inches ; the tail is about an 
inch and half long, thinly befet with hairs, 
brown above, and yellowifh below. If .this 
Ipecies had no tail, I fhould take it to be the 
minute Shrew, which the Rev. Mr. Lax- 
man found in Siberia, and which is the Sorex 
minutus . Linn. 
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