PYGMY, WHITE-TOOTHED SHREW, &C. 463 
hair is very fine and shining, grey above and white 
beneath ; it is found about the Oby, and near the 
Kama ; it lives on seeds ; digs ; runs swiftly ; and 
has the voice of a bat. 
Pygmy shrew. 
The pygmy shrew is, in shape and colour, like 
the fetid, but paler ; its tail is small at both ends, 
and thick in the middle ; it is very common about 
the Jenisay and the Oby ; it weighs about half a 
drachm only, and is thought to be the least of all 
quadrupeds. 
White-toothed, and square-tailed shrews. 
Have little to distinguish them, except their 
generic characters, and those peculiarities from 
which they take their name. 
These two species inhabit the neighbourhood of 
Strasburg, 
f Canada shrew. 
This animal may, with great propriety, be termed 
sorex radiatus ; since the snout, which is long and 
slender, has a dilated cartilaginous extremity, fur- 
nished with a circular series of sharp-pointed pro- 
cesses, or soft tendrils, disposed in the manner of 
the rays in a spur. The whole animal is of a long 
form, and its habit immediately pronounces it to be- 
long to the shrew tribe, and not to that of the mole. 
It seems to have been first described and figured 
by Mans, de la Faille, in his Memoir on moles. 
It is a native of Canada, and resembles the Mole 
only in some particular parts; while in others if 
approaches to the mouse tribe ; having the same 
shape and agility. Its tail, which is three laches 
