THE FETID SHREW. 



Horse's skin, which is certainly necessary before the 

 animal can inflict a bite. 



The females are supposed to breed more than 

 once in the year; and to produce, in general, four 

 or five young ones at a birth. Spring and summer 

 are the usual times in which the young have been 

 found. Mr. Pennant mentions a fact relative to the 

 Fetid Shrews, which I have never remarked, and 

 which, on enquiry, I cannot find to have been re^ 

 marked by any of my acquaintance, (but which 

 may, nevertheless, have been correctly ascertained 

 by him,) that there is an annual mortality in these 

 animals, great numbers of them being found dead 

 in the paths, every August, without any apparent 

 cause. 



The Fetid Shrew is one of the most common of 

 the British quadrupeds. 



In Wales this Shrew is called llygoden goch, ch-wisf- 

 len, llyg: in France, musaraigne: in Italy, toporag- 

 no : in Spain and Portugal, murgariho, muferhano : 

 in Germany, muger, spigmus, zismus, spitzmaus, 

 haselmaus : in Holland, spitzmuis : in Switzerland, 

 miirer : in Savoy, muset, musette: in Hungary, 

 patkaanj: in Sweden, nabbmus: in Denmark, angel- 

 muus, nczbmuus, tnuuseskier: in Norway, nebbe- 

 muus, museskicer : in Lapland, zibac. 



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