CONTENTS OF PART VIII. 



Erinaceid/E (True Hedgehogs) — 

 Genus Erinaceus — 



The Hedgehog or Urchin 



SORICID^ (Shrews) .... 



Genus Sorex .... 



The Common Shrew 



The Pygmy or Lesser Shrew 



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

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

 Mr C. M. Drcnnan, M.A. Land.., late Scholar Einjn. Coll. Canib. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quig^^in, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer i?i Moderti Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

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

 ?iames have beeit supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Valuable 

 assistance has been rendered by Mr M. C. A. Hi?ito?t regardifig 

 extinct Mammals. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full- PAGE {Coloured and Black and White). 



House Mouse. {Coloured^ 



The Hedgehog. 



The Hedgehog — (i) Left Hand; (2) Left Foot; (3) Left Ear; 

 (4) Dorsal View of Tail. 



The Shrew— Left Ears of (i) Common ; (2) Pygmy; (3) Water. 



The Shrew — Tails of (i) Lesser; (2) Common; (3) Water. 



Figures in Text. 



Mandibular Articulation of Soricime. (Drawn by M. C. A. Hinton.) 



Side View of Teeth of (i) Sorex aranens ; (2) Sorex ntinutus ; 

 (3) Neoniys fodicris. 



