32 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, 



FIG. 5. Grey Shrew (Mysorex variiLS, Smuts). 



FIG. 6. 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 



