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CONTENTS OF PART VII. 



Talpid^ — 



Genus Talpa — 



The Common Mole, Moldwarp or Want . . .25 



Erinaceid^ (True Hedgehogs) — 



Genus Erinaceus ...... 45 



The Hedgehog or Urchin . . . . .47 



The English local names have been revised in part by Mr IV. W. 

 Skeat, M.A. {assisted by Professor IV. W. Skeat), and in part by 

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Lond., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Camb. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quiggin, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge ; while a list of Scottish Gaelic 

 names have been supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Valuable 

 assistance has been rendered by Mr M. C. A. Hinton regarding 

 extinct Mammals. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full- PAGE {Coloured ajid Black and White). 



Pygmy or Lesser Shrews. {Coloured.) 



The Mole. — Head and Fore Limbs — (i) Ventral; and (2) Side View. 

 (Magnified.) 



The Mole.— (i) Left Hand; (2) Foot; and (3) Dorsal View of Tail. 

 (Magnified i^ times.) 



Diagram of Mole's Tracks in Snow. (Reduced ; after Adams.) 



Figures in Text. 

 Mole heaving up Loose Earth. (Diagrammatic ; after Adams.) 



Skull of Hedgehog, Erinaceus europcEus — {a) from above ; {b) from 

 below. (Drawn by G. Dollman.) 



Side View of Teeth of Erinaceus europceus. (Diagrammatic and magni- 

 fied i^ times.) 



x/rnt. 



