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tending all round its body to tlie extremities of the toes, 

 and to the point of the rather long tail. This enables it 



U-'VN run, cj.sr 



Fig. 299.— Common Shrew. 



to pass obliquely through the air from one tree to another. 

 Wallace observed one fly seventy yards, the amount of de- 

 scent not being more than thirty-five or forty feet, or less 



Fig. 300. — Common Mole {Scalops aquaticus Linn.). 



than one in five. "This I think proves that the animal 

 must have some power of guiding itself through the air, 



