CONTENTS OF PART VII. 



Talfwje — 



Genus Talpa — 



The Common Mole, Moldwarp or Want . . .25 



Erinaceid^ (True Hedgehogs)— 



Genus Erinaceus ...... 45 



The Hedgehog or Urchin .... 47 



The English local names have been revised in part by Mr W. W. 

 Skeat, M.A. (assisted by Professor W. W. Skeat), and in part by 

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Land., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Camb. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quiggin, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge; while a list of Scottish Gaelic 

 names have been supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Valuable 

 assistance has been rendered by Mr M. C. A. Hinton regarding 

 extinct Mammals. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page {Coloured and Black and White). 



Pygmy or Lesser Shrews. {Coloured^ 



The Mole. — Head and Fore Limbs — (i) Ventral; and (2) Side View. 

 (Magnified.) 



The Mole.— (i) Left Hand ; .(2) Foot; and (3) Dorsal View of Tail. 

 (Magnified i\ times.) 



Diagram of Mole's Tracks in Snow. (Reduced ; after Adams.) 



Figures in Text. 



Mole heaving up Loose Earth. (Diagrammatic; after Adams.) 



Skull of Hedgehog, Erinaceus europmus — {a) from above; [b) from 

 below. (Drawn by G. Dollman.) 



Side View of Teeth of Erinaceus europcBus. (Diagrammatic and magni- 

 fied 1 1 times.) 



