. Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. 100 INSECTIVORA Colour.—Upper parts varying from a dark hair-brown, tinged with bister to a light drab with or without a shade of wood-brown, the darker colour more frequent in winter pelage, the light apparently pecuhar to summer. The pelage has the usual metallic gloss, and the individual hairs show strong silvery reflections in certain lights, particularly in the long full winter coat. Underparts usually a dull buffy grey or ecru-drab, but sometimes almost whitish, rarely tinge
. Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. 100 INSECTIVORA Colour.—Upper parts varying from a dark hair-brown, tinged with bister to a light drab with or without a shade of wood-brown, the darker colour more frequent in winter pelage, the light apparently pecuhar to summer. The pelage has the usual metallic gloss, and the individual hairs show strong silvery reflections in certain lights, particularly in the long full winter coat. Underparts usually a dull buffy grey or ecru-drab, but sometimes almost whitish, rarely tinged with a bright yellowish brown,* never strongly constrasted with back, the line of demarcation along sides always vague. Feet dull buffy grey or light drab Tail obscurely bicolor, like back above, like belly below. Shtll and teeth.—The skull resembles that of Crocidura leucodon, except that the brain-case is noticeably less flattened, its depth at middle always exceeding one half greatest width, a character readily appreciable to the eye when skulls of the two animals are viewed from beliind. Teeth essentially as in the related species, but large upper premolar with antero-external. Fig. 20. Fig. 21. Posterior view of skull of Crocidura rus$itla. Anterior Crocidura leucodon (upper teeth in profile. X ."i. figure), and C. russu!a (lower figure). X li. cusp (paracone) low, its height often much less than that of third unicuspid, the distance from its point to ill-detined angle in cingulum over anterior root of tooth about half length of anterior border of main cusp; posterior cutting blade not so high as in Crocidura leucodon, the angle formed between its edge and conspicuously projecting point of main cusp well defined and less obtuse than in the related species. Measurements.—In the diflerent races the head and body ranges from 04 to 95 mm., tail from 33 to 46 mm., hind foot from 10'8 to 14 mm., condylobasal length of skull from 18 to 20*4 mm. The unusual apparent v
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