Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... present, Mr. Thomas believes this to be a valid geographical race, characteristic at least of Mount Kina Balu, if not of the whole of Borneo. It should be stated that Dr. F. A. Jentink, of the Leyden museum, where the type of H. suillus is preserved, believes it to be not worthy of separation from that animal. The true Hylomys suillus has been recorded from Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java. FAMILY SORICIDE. GENUS CROCIDURA. KtuU t. c CROCIDURA FULIGINOSA.-f Crocidura juliginosa, Blyth, J.A.S.B., xxiv., p. 362. '/Fj."' This is the common shrew of the low country, which is constantly found dead in the middle of the road. It ascends the mountains to the height of 2000-ft. Upper teeth 16. Size rather small. Muzzle thinly clad. Ears large, nearly naked. Feet thinly clad above. Tail long, three fourth the length of the head and body, or more, sub-cylindrical, very gently tapering (except in the rutting-season, when the basal portion is thickened), nearly naked, being thinly clad with very short hair, amongst which a few longer hairs are interspersed in the basal half only. Colour--Bluey slate above and below. Tail thin with a few longer hairs at the base. Hab. Kina Balu (J. Whitehead). (A. Everett)). CROCIDURA MONTICOLA. Crocidura monticola Pet.? Hab. Sarawak (A. Everett). CROCIDURA HOSEI. o.i!. v. Crocidura hosei, Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, vol. xi., 1893. See plate. Size very small, scarcely exceeding that of the minute Indian species C. perotteti, hodgsoni, &c, and belonging evidently to the same group, which has not hitherto been recorded from the Malay region. Fur close, crisp, and velvety. Colour deep smoky grey, finely grizzled with whitish; belly rather paler; /'" ears, feet, and tail dark...
