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SOREX BREVIC AUDUS.-Say. 
Short-tailed Shrew. 
CHARACTERS. 
Blackish plumbeous above, a little lighter beneath ; smaller than S. Dekayi 3 
tail a little longer. 
SYNONYMES. 
Say, Long’s Expedition, vol. i., p. 164. 
Godman, vol. i., p. 79, plate 3, fig. 1. 
Harlan, Fauna, p. 29. 
Bachman, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. vii., part ii., 
p. 331. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The form of this species is more slender than that of Dekay’s shrew, 
and it appears about one fifth less ; the feet are a little longer and rather 
large for the size of the animal ; the fur on the back long, nearly double 
the° length of the other species ; the fore-feet are naked; the hind ones 
sparsely covered with hair ; the nose is distinctly lobed ; the orifice to 
the internal ear is large, with two distinct half-divisions the tail in the 
dried specimen appears to be square, sparsely clothed with hair which 
extends beyond the tip. 
COLOUR. 
The nose and tail are dark brown ; feet and nails white ; the whole 
upper surface of a blackish plumbeous colour ; the under surface a little 
lighter. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Length from tip of the nose to root of tail, 
“ of heel to end of tail, - 
“ of tail, 1 
“ of head, - - 
Breadth across the head, - ^ 
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