RADIATED SHREW. 
which he considers as a Mole, is more above 
ground, and less addicted to burrowing, than 
the common species. He also acknowledges, 
that it is not very common in Canada. It oc- 
casionally burrows somewhat in the manner 
of the Mole, but far less forcibly and expedi- 
tiously ; and it is said to pass a very conside- 
rable portion of it's life beneath the surface of 
the snow. 
It is remarkable, that the Radiated Mole, 
though placed in the genus of Moles by Pen- 
nant, and some other naturalists, from it's 
having the manners of that tribe; is ranked, 
in the Systema Naturae, with the Shrews, on 
account of the number of it's teeth. Grrieliri 
calls it Sorex Cristatus, or the Crested Shrew. 
Pennant describes, as another species of Ra- 
diated Mole, though to us it seems merely a 
variety of the Sorex Cristatus, what he deno- 
minates the Long-Tailed Mole. This, we 
strongly suspect, is a variety of the same ani- 
mal as bill Radiated Shrew ; but without that 
peculiarity of the tail, which so singularly 
iiistin2;uishes the li<rure of M. De la Faille. 
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