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?36*Wat|r. Mus araneus dorfo nigro, ven- viii. 64. tab. xi. 
treque albo. Merret Pinax. 167. Water Shrew-moufe Br.Zool. iU 
Sorex fodiens Pallas *. lujlr. tab. cii. 
La Mufaraigne d’Eau de Buffon> 
Sh. with a long (lender nofe : very minute ears : 
very fmall eyes, hid in the fur : color of the head 
and upper part of the body black : throat, bread, 
and belly, of a light afii-color: beneath the tail a 
triangular dufky fpot: much larger than the lad: 
length, from nofe to tail, three inches three quartersy 
tail two inches. 
Inhabits Europe : long fince known in England , 
but lod till May 1768, when it was difcovered in 
the fens near Revejly Abby , Lincoln/hire : burrows in 
the banks near the water : is called by the Fen~mea 
the Blind Moufe . 
237Minute. Sorex minutus. S. roftro longiffimo Lin.fyJl. 73. 
Sh. with a head near as big as the body: very (len¬ 
der nofe : broad fhort naked ears : whiikers reaching 
to the eyes: eyes fmall, and capable of being drawn 
in : hair very fine and ihining *, grey above, white 
beneath: no tail: the led of quadrupeds, according 
to Linnaeus. 
Inhabits Siberia: lives in a ned made of lichens , 
* Doctor Pallas favored me. with feveral prints of this animal in 
1765, but never publifhed them : he difcovered it near Berlin : it is 
called there Qrakr^ or The Digger. 
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