THE QALKOPFTHEi 





tending all round its body to the extremities of the I 

 and to the point of the rather long tail. Tins enabli 





Fig. 899.— Common Shrew. 



to pass obliquely through the air from or her. 



Wallace observed one flj ty yards, the amount of de- 



scent uot being more than thirty-five or forty feet, or less 





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Fio. 300. — Common Mol Linn I. 



than one in five. "This 1 think proves that the animal 

 must have some power of guiding itself through f iie air, 



