CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 4. INSECTIVORA. 



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THE STAK-NOSED MOLE. 



Virginia. In the United States it is sometimes called Button-nosed Mole. Its length is five 

 inches ; its color nearly black ; the nose and feet, flesh-color. It burrows in moist places like 

 the shrew-mole, though rather deeper, and has, like that 

 animal, chambers for rearing its young. It is most numer- 

 ous near the borders of streams, its food, like that of the 

 mole, consisting of worms and insects. When observed in 

 confinement, it continually attempts to hide itself by dig- 

 ging, and the cartilaginous tendrils around the nose are 

 in perpetual motion. In that state it eats all kinds of flesh 

 readily, and shows no disposition to feed on vegetables. 



The C. macroura, described by Richardson and others 

 as a distinct species, is thought by Dr. DeKay to be the same as" the one above described. 



SNOOT OF THE C. CRISTATA, ENLARGED. 



