CONTENTS OF PART IX. 



SORICID^ (Shrews)— 

 Genus Sorex — 



The Pygmy or Lesser Shrew 

 Genus Neomys . 

 The Water Shrew 



RODENTIA (Rodents) 

 Duplicidentata . 



OchotondcB (Pikas or Mouse- Hares) 

 LeporidcB (Hares and Rabbits) 



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, Cam,bridge ; ivhile 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. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page {Coloured and Black and White). 

 The Stoat. {Coloured^ 



Heads (viewed from side) of — (i) Lesser Shrew; (2) Common Shrew; 

 and (3) Water Shrew. 



Heads (viewed from above) of— (i) Lesser Shrew ; (2) Common Shrew ; 

 and (3) Water Shrew. 



Water Shrew — (i) Left Fore Foot from beneath ; (2) Left Hind Foot 

 from side ; and (3) Left Hind Foot from beneath. 



Figures in Text. 



Skulls of (i) Sorex araneus and (2) 5. minutus — (a) from above; 



ip) from the side. 

 Skull of Neomys fodiens — {a) from above ; (1^) from the side ; {c) from 



beneath. 

 Skull of Talpa europcea — {a) from above ; {p) from the side ; (c) from 



beneath. 

 Skull of Epimys rattus, to show " rodent teeth " (life size). 

 Upper Cheek Teeth oi Duplicidentata. 

 Skull of Ochotona spelcea, from Kent's Hole, Devon. 



