CONTENTS OF PART IX. 



SORICID^ (Shrews) — 

 Genus Sorex — 



The Pygmy or Lesser Shrew 



Genus Neoinys . 

 The Water Shrew 



RODENTIA (Rodents) 

 Duplicidentata . 



OchotondcB (Pikas^or Mouse-Hares) 

 Lepori.dcB (Hares and Rabbits) 



The Efiglish local 7iames have been revised in part by Mr W. W. 

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

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Land., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Cajnb. ; 

 the Celtic a?td 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. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full- PAGE {Coloured and Black and White). 

 The Stoat. {Coloured^ 



Heads (viewed from side) of — (i) Lesser Shrew; (2) Common Shrew; 

 and (3) Water Shrew. 



Heads (viewed from above) of— (i) Lesser Shrew ; (2) Common Shrew ; 

 and (3) Water Shrew. 



Water Shrew — (i) Left Fore Foot from beneath ; (2) Left Hind Foot 

 from side ; and (3) Left Hind Foot from beneath. 



Figures in Text. 



Skulls of (i) Sorex araneus and (2) S. niinutus — {a) from above; 

 {b) from the side. 



Skull of Neoinys fodiens — {a) from above ; {b~) from the side ; [c) from 

 beneath. 



Skull of Talpa europcEa — {a) from above ; ib) from the side ; {c) from 

 beneath. 



Skull of Epimys rattiis, to show " rodent teeth " (life size). 



Upper Cheek Teeth of Duplicidentata. 



Skull of Ochotona spelcea, from Kent's Hole, Devon. 



