38 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



der, feeble, naked and scaly; all the phalanges 

 being free ; nails less long than those of the hand, 

 less broad, but more curved ; tail rather slender, 

 with its vertebrae slightly projecting; the skin 

 which covers it divided into transverse folds, 

 scaly; between which project hairs more rare 

 and stiff than on other parts of the body. 



Fur short, very soft, rather coarser and more 

 sparse than that of the common mole of Europe, 

 but of the same blackish-gray velvet. 



Whiskers composed of stiff hairs, rather long, 

 elevated, nearly parallel and directed forwards ; 

 the external borders of the hands furnished with 

 a series of stiff hairs, slightly recurved towards 

 the palm, whioli is absolutely naked. Palate 

 wrinkled transversely ; lower jaw very thin and 

 slender ; sixteen vertebrae to the tail. 



Habit. Not sufficiently observted ; possesses 

 the faculty of moving the membrane on the end 

 of the nose. 



Inhabit Canada and the United States; very 

 common in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



Species. 



2. Condylura longicaudata, Desm. Mam. lo?ig- 

 tailed mole, Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 314. No. 244. 

 tab. 16, fig. 2. Taipei longicaudata,F,rx\eh. Sj^st. 

 Anim. t. 1. p. 118. Gmel. Syst. Nat. J3odd. p. 126. 

 sp. 2. (Encycl. pi. 28, fig. 5.) 



