BROWN’ NM. OLE. 
fome to go over places where thefe animals inhabit, the ground pez- 
petually breaking under their feet *. 
Thefe Moles have all the ftrength in their legs as thofe of Europe, 
and work in the fame manner. They feed on roots, are very iraf- 
cible, and will bite very feverely. 
Hifi. Quad, N° 353.—Lev. Mus. 
OLE. With a long and very flender nofe: two broad cutting 
teeth in the upper, four fharp and flender in the lower, jaw ; 
the two middlemoft fhort: the grinders very numerous, ftrong, fharp, 
and feparate: the fore feet very broad; thofe and the hind feet ex- 
actly like thofe of the European kind. 
Length about fix inches ; tail one. 
I received two fpecimens of this animal from New York. The 
hair in both foft, filky, and gloffy: the hair in each dufky at the 
bottom ; but in one, the ends were of a yellowifh brown; in the 
other, brown: the feet and tail of both were white. I fufpect that 
they were varieties of the kind defcribed by Seba t, which he got 
from Virginia: it was totally black, gloffed over with a moft re- 
fplendent purple. I may here note, the Tail-lefs Mole, figured by 
Seba in the fame plate, is not a native of Sidiria, as he makes it; but 
is an inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Thefe three fpecies agree pretty nearly with the Shrew in the fore 
teeth; for which reafon Linneus claffes the two he defcribes among the 
Sorices. I call them Moles from their fhape, which differs not from 
the Exropean kind ; but thofe who chufe to be very fyftematic, may 
divide the genus of Shrews, and ftyle thefe Sorices Talpe-formes. 
® Kalmy is 190. t+ P. 51. tab, xxxii. 
Ts Evropean, 
14t 
70. BROWNe 
Piace. 
