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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



I found this little Shrew fairly plentiful at Modder- 

 fontein Dynamite Factory, near Johannesburg, where 

 it inhabited the disused hollow antheaps on the veld. 



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Fig. 5.— Grey Shrew {Mysorex varius, Smuts). 



Fig. C— Albino Shrew. 



constructing as far into the centre of the mound as 

 possible a round nest of grass, where it gave birth to from 

 three to four blind and naked young ones. These little 



