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DEKAY’S SHREW. 
when two were captured near New York, and have neard of its existence 
in New England, Maryland, and Virginia. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
We have seen specimens of DeKay’s Shrew which exhibited a dark slaty 
gray appearance on the back and sides, and differed materially in colour 
from those from which we described. 
This we attributed to the dark gray ones having been killed in the 
autumn or towards the approach of winter. Dr. DeKay seems to have 
described a specimen with this slaty coloured fur ; he gives its colour as 
“ dark bluish throughout.” 
