CONTENTS OF PART VIII. 



Erinaceid^ (True Hedgehogs)— 

 Genus Erinaceus — 



The Hedgehog or Urchin . 



SORICID^ (Shrews). 



Genus Sorex 



The Common Shrew 



The Pygmy or Lesser Shrew 



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. Af.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). 



House Mouse. {Coloured!) 



The Hedgehog. 



The Hedgehog— (i) Left Hand; (2) Left Foot; (3) Left Ear 

 (4) Dorsal View of Tail. 



The Shrew — Left Ears of (i) Common ; (2) Pygmy ; (3) Water. 



The Shrew — Tails of (i) Lesser; (2) Common; (3) Water. 



Figures in Text. 

 Mandibular Articulation of Soricince. (Drawn by M. C. A. Hinton.) 



Side View of Teeth of (i) Sorex araneus ; (2) Sorex minutus ; 

 (3) Neoniys fodiens. 



