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BREWER’S SHREW MOLE. 
and nearly naked, like that of Sc. Aquations, is flat and broad, resembling 
m some respects that of the Beaver, and is very thickly clothed,, above and 
beneath, with long stitf hairs, which extend five lines beyond the vertebr®. 
COLOUR. 
The colour, above and beneath, is a glossy cinereous black, like velvet ; 
precisely similar to that of the European mole {Talpa Europea) with 
which we compared it. Under the throat there is a slight tinge of brown 
the tail IS ashy brown above, light beneath. The ewe is about one-third 
, longer than that of the common shrew mole. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Length of the head and body 
Tail vertebras . . . . 
Do. including fur 
Breadth of tail .... 
Do. of palm .... 
Length of do to end of middle claw 
UfCHBS. 
LINES. 
5 
11 
1 
0 
1 
5 
■ 0 
4 
0 
4 
0 
7 
n the Museurn of the Zoological Society of London there is a specimen 
obtained from the United States, which evidently is the same species 
is mariced mthe printed catalogue r^o. 145, Bremeri Bachman’s 
M. SS It however ditfers in having the fur more compact, and shorter 
the CO our somewhat darker, and in fact almost black. The hairs of 
the tail, instead of being brownish ash colour, are black, and the hind feet 
instead of being covered above with brownish white hairs, as in our 
specimens, are brownish black. 
DIMENSIONS OP THE SKULL OF THE ABOVE THREE 
SPECIES. 
Sc. Aquations 
S. Townsendi 
S. Breweri 
LENG'KI of skulls. 
INCHES. LINES. 
1 4 
1 7J 
1 3 
WIDTH. LENGTH OP PALATE. 
LINES. LINES. 
8 7 
H 81 
n H 
In a collection of the smaller rodentia procured for ns in New England 
bjonr friend Thouss M. BH.wsin Esq. an intelligent naturalist, we were 
s rptised and Ratified at finding this now species of shrew mole ; the spe- 
mmen having been obtained by Dr. L. M. Yarn, at Martha’s Vineyard an 
island on the coast of New England. its habits it approaches 1 “ 
