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MAMMALIA. FERiE. Sorex. 71 
Tail middle length, nakedilh ; body blackilli, beneath cine* 
reous ; toes fringed. Water Shrew. 
Inhabits Europe and Siberia, near Iwamps and rivers; Iwitns 
eafily, often under water ; female teats 1 o, brings 9 young ; 
voice like the chirp of a gralshopper: 4 inches long, tail 2. 
Snout broader at the tip, feet longer than S. araneus ; fore-teeth 
lower 2 ; tujki 3:2; grinders 4:3; whifkers long, afh-co- 
loured ; ears fmall, a tuft of white hairs within ; kgs and feet 
white. 
Tail middle length ; body brown ; feet and tail cinereous. 
Murine Shrew. 
Inhabits Java ; lize of a inoufe. 
long, channelled beneath ; whifkers long’, eirrr rounded, 
nakedilh; fore-teeth 2, acute, parallel; feet 5-toed, clawed; 
tail a little fhorter than the body, nakedilh. 
Tail middle length ; body whitifli beneath. Fetid Shrew. 
Inhabits all Europe and north of Afia; lives in old walls, fta- 
bles, yards, granaries, outhoufes, fwamps and pools, feeds on 
com and inlcfts ; fmells of mufk, is killed but not eaten by 
cats, voice fhrill, runs flower than a moufe, brings 5 — 6 
young in fpriirg and fummer ; never 3 inches long ; teeth like 
the S. bicolor, 
2- Head, upper parts dulky ; fides brownifli-rufty. 
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay, and Labr adore, with 3. 
Upper parts dufky-grey ; under yellowifli-white. 
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Tail half as long as tlie body ; body above chefnut, beneath 
white and yellowiih-grey. Surinam Shrew. 
Inhabits Surinam ; refembles S. bicolor, ears S. araneus ; tail 
covered with Ihort, dole hair, above cinereous, beneath paler ; 
mouth white. • 
Ears rounded; tail Ihort, a little fringed at the fides. 
Timid Shrew. 
Inhabits the northern parts of Perfia, in holes which it burrows, 
inches long ; teeth like S. araneus, other parts like S. fu- 
rinamenfis ; body dark grey above, belly paler. 
Brown; back black with 3 ftripcs. Brafdian Shrew. 
Inhabits Brays;.- not afraid of cats ; 5 inches long, tail 2. 
Scrotum pendulous ; fnout pointed ; teeth fharp. 
Exilis. 
