MAMMALS-SORICINAE-BLARINA EXILIPES. 
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BLARINA EXILIPES, Baird. 
Sr. Ch. —Small. Fur full, longest hairs measuring.2 lines. Feet very small; the anterior not 3| lines ; the posterior 5, or 
about five-eighths the length of the skull. 
Color above, hoary olive-brown, with a chestnut tinge. Beneath, grayish-white. Tail bicolored. Head and body, less than 
2 inches. Tail about 0.60 of an inch. 
Size very small; body slender. Ear small and concealed in the fur, apparently much as in 
/S', cinereus. Fur filll, compact, longest hairs measuring about two lines. Feet very small; 
anterior contained one and a half times in the posterior, which are not five eighths the length 
of the skull. The hand, however, appears larger. The soles, as far as can he ascertained, are 
hairy towards the heel, as in S. cinereus and other short-tailed^ species. There is a seventh 
tubercle behind the posterior hair. The first toe appears unusually short, barely reaching the 
anti-penultimate articulation. The tail is very short, not as long as the head, thin, and coated 
with short hairs. 
Color .—The upper parts are of an olive chestnut-brown, or, perhaps, a light liver-brown, with 
a slight purplish tinge and a hoary appearance, caused by the light bar near the tips of the 
hairs. Beneath, grayish or ashy white, with a tinge of yellowish anteriorly. The tail is 
bicolor. 
The skull is broader anteriorly than in the long-tailed shrews. The dental formula is 
30. The anterior upper incisors have a basal conical process, scarcely to be 
called a hook, which comes down as far as the lateral teeth, and is nearly as large as the first 
one. There is no internal lobe and the teeth are considerably separated. The first lateral tooth 
is rather smaller than the second, and the third little more than half as long as the latter; a 
slight diastema anterior to the first upper molar barely allows the fourth lateral to be seen. 
The lower anterior incisors have very obsolete dentations on the cutting edge. The crowns and 
points of all the teeth are well colored, of a dark chestnut; darkest on the tips. 
Measurements. 
No. 640. 
No. 641. 
No. 631. 
No. 639. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. I 
Lines. 
Nose to occiput i_ 
0 
2 
9 
1 
8 
8* 
3 
m 
8 
m 
3* 
4A 
0 
1 
8 
11 
7 
n 
3 
7A 
H 
3 
2A 
10 
3 
8 i 
8* 
3-fc 
5 
8 
m 
3* 
m 
9 
0 
9 
10 
' 3-fr 
6* 
8 
Nose to root of tail'_ 
2 
2 
Tail to end of vertehrad 
Tail to end of hairs 1 
Hand from wrist- _ _ 
Foot from heel__...._ 
Skull, length_ __ .. - 
Skull, breadth___ 
Skull, length of palate_ 
3-dr 
2-^2 
Skull, width of upper part___ 
. 
! 
1 Measurements tftken before skinning. 
