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TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



stronger one will eat the other. The mole can swim 

 well, and burrow so rapidly in the earth, it may almost 

 be said to fly through it. It makes a nest lined with 



FIG. g5. 



THE RUSSIAN DESMAN. 



dry grass or leaves, from which a regular system of 

 passages issue forth. 



In America, representatives of the Old World moles 

 are called star-nioles, because a series of delicate pro- 



