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SOREX PERSONATUS.-St. Hillaire. 
SYNONYMES. 
Sorex Personates. — St. Hillaire, Guerin’s Mag. de Zoologie pour 1833, pi. 14. 
“ “ Bachman, Monogr. IST. American species of Sorex, Jour. 
Acad. Fat. Sci., Pbila., vol. vii., part ii., p. 398. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Hair reddish brown above, light ash coloured beneath, end of the nose 
blackish brown above, ears small and concealed in the fur ; tail rather 
square, one third of the total length of the animal. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Length to root of tail, 2 
“ of tail, --------- 1 
HABITS. 
We have never seen this shrew. The specimen from which the descrip- 
tion was taken by St. Hillaire (translated above) was sent from America 
by Milbert (1827). 
