SORECID2E, the family of shrews, comprising the genera Sorex, Soriculus, Crossopus, and Corsim.
Sorex crerulescens, Shaw, Blyth.
Sores. Indicus. I S. Sonnerati, Geoff.
S. giganteus. I S. myosurus, Gray.
Sondeli, ..... CAN. I Musk-shrew, . . . ENG. Alusk-rat, . . . . ENG. I Chachundi, . . HIND.
All India.
Sorex murinus, Linn., Blyth.
S. Swinhmi, s. myosnrus, Pallas.
S. viridescens, Myth. I Mouse-coloured shrew.
Sorex nemorivagus, Hodgson.
S. murines, Horaf. I Nepal wood shrew, ENG. Nepal, Sikkim.
Sorex Griffithii, Horsf., Khassya Sorex serpeutarius, Is. Geoff.
B. kandianus, .Kelaart. Rufescent shrew.
Ceylon, S. India, Burma, Tenasserim.
Sorex heterodon, Blyth, Khassya Hills.
Sorex saturatior, Hodg., Darjiling.
Sorex Tytleri, Blyth, the Debra shrew.
Sorex soccatus,. Blyth, Hodgson, hairy - footed shrew, Nepal, Sikkhn, .Mussoori.
Sorex niger, Horsf., Neilgherry wood shrew, Neilgherry Hills.
Sorex leucops, Hodr., long - tailed shrew, Nepal.
Sorex Hodgsonii, Blyth, Nepal' pigmy shrew, Nepal.
Sorex Perroteti, Durernoy, Neilgherry pigmy shrew, Mysore, Neilgherries, Dekhan.
Sorex inicronyx, R'yth, small - clawed pigmy shrew of Western Himalaya.
Sorex melanodon, Myth, black-toothed pigmy shrew of Calcutta.
Sorex Sikkimensis Hod!". ; S. homourus, Hodg.; S. oligurus Hodg.; macrurus, Hody.; S. holo sericeus, .liody.; and S. tenuicaudus, Body., all of Darjiling.
Sorex ferrugineus, Kel.; S. montanus, Kel.:
S. Kelaarti, Kel.; S. purpurascens, Temp.; S. Horsfieldii, Tomes, all of Ceylon.
Sorex fuligiuosus, Blyth, and S. nudipes, Tenasseritn.
Sorex atratns, Blyth, Khassya, Sorex albinus, Blyth, China.
Sorex pulchellus, Licht., Central AS1R.
Soriculus nigrescens, .Terd.
Corsira, Gray, Blyth. I S. soccatus, Hodg, S. aterrimus, Blyth. I S. Sikkimensis, Hors/.
Tiug-Zhing, . . . Bnor. Tang-Zhing, . . LEPCH.
Mouse.jtailed shrew of Sikkim, Nepal. Crossopus Himalaiens, Gray.
Choopitsi, . . . Bnor. . . LEPCH.
The Himalayan water-shrew of Sikkim. Corsira alpina, Jerdon.
Sorex caudatus, Hodg., Bl. I Alpine shrew, . . ENG.
Europe, Sikkim.
Corsim Newera-elia, Kel., of Ceylon. Feroculus macropus, Kel.
• Sorex macropus, Blyth.
Ceylon.
Snakes are said to avoid the neighbourhood of tlie shrew. In Jeypore the body of a small musk-rat is regarded as a powerful taiisman. It is dried, is enclosed in a case of brass, silver, or gold, accord ing to the means of the individual, and is slung around the neck, or tied to the atm, to render the individual proof against all evil, not excepting sword and other cut, musket shot, etc.—Labbock, Origin of Civil. p. 167; Jerdon ; Blyth ; Hodgson.