Class I. 



MOLE. 



157 



GENUS XVII. MOLE. 



Nose long, slender. 



Jaw upper, much longer than the lower.. 

 Ears none. 



Fore-feet very broad, with scarcely any appa- 

 rent legs before : hind-feet very small. 



Talpa. The Mole, Mole- Warp, 

 or Want. Bail syn. quad. 

 236. 



Meyers an. i. Tab. 2. 



Talpa alba nostras. Sel. Mus. i. 

 p. 61. Tab. 32. f. 1. 



Sib. Scot. 11. 



Gesner quad. 93 1 . 



Talpa caudata nigricans pedi- 

 bus anticis et posticis penta- 

 dactylis. Brisson quad. 203. 



De Buff on, Tom. viii. 81. 



Tab. 12. 

 Talpa europsea. T. cauda 



brevi, pedibus pentadacty- 



lis. Gm.Lin. 110. 

 Faun. Suec. 23. 

 Talpa. Klein quad. 60. 

 Br. Zool. 52. Hist. quad. ii. 



JVb.440. p. 229. Arct. Zool. 



i. 164. 



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Maulvverf 



Fren. 



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But. 



Mol 



Ital. 



Talpa 





Swed. 



Mulvad, Surk 



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X HERE are many animals in which the Divine 

 Wisdom may be more agreeably illustrated, yet 

 the uniformity of its attention to every article of 

 the creation, even to the most apparently con- 

 temptible, by adapting the parts to its destined 



