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CHAPTER V. 



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Insectivora ........ 83 



Hedgehogs — The Mole — Tlie Common, Lesser 

 and Water Shrews. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Rodents or Gnawing Animals .... 101 

 The Squirrel — The Beaver — TheDormouse — The 

 Harvest Mouse — The Wood Mouse — The 

 House Mouse — The Black or Old English 

 Rat — The Brown Rat— Rats as Plague Car- 

 riers — Voles or Red Mice— The Bank, Field 

 and Water Voles — Hares and Rabbits — The 



Guinea-pi< 



-CHAPTER VII. 



Bats . . . . . .172 



General Sti-ucture of Bats — The Pipistrelle — The 

 Serotine, Noctule and Long-eared Bat — The 

 hibernation of Bats. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Hoofed Animals or Ungulates . .185 



General characteristics of these Animals — 

 Elephants — Mammoths. 



