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THE WATER SHEEW. These animals, which make their burrows in river banks and lead an emphatically aquatic life, possess all the sang,uinary 



proclivities of their kind, and besides insects they eat any fishes they are able to overcome, and their voracity incites them to attack quite large members of 

 the finny tribe, as is clearly shown by this picture, which was taken from life. The Water Shrew is distributed over nearly all of Europe and part of Asia and 

 IS found in abundance in all congenial places. {Crossofus fo4iens.) 



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