226 THE FETID SHREW. 



Their voice is somewhat shrill. The effluvium 

 from their bodies is, in general,, fetid and unplea- 

 sant. 



The females produce from four to six young 

 ones at a litter. 



THE FETID SHREW*. 



SHREW. SHREW-MOUSE. SHROVE-MOUSE, OR HARDY- 

 SHREW. 



THE Fetid Shrew resides in a little burrow which 

 it forms under the surface of the ground. Some- 

 times, however, it saves itself the labour of con- 

 triving an habitation, by adopting one (of larger 

 dimensions, indeed, than it has need of) which has 

 been abandoned by a Mole. It occasionally has a 

 concealment under the moss that grows round the 

 bottom of .large trees; or amongst the matted 

 leaves and moss in old and thick hedge-rows. Not 

 unfrequently it is to be observed about hay-ricks 

 and dung-hills; and in the most filthy of the latter 



* Sorex araneus, LinncBus. La Musaraigne. Buffbn. 



For the description of the Fetid Shrew, see the Synopsis, p. 36, 

 No. 20. 



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