ELEPHANT SHREW. » 
vJF this curious Shrew Mouse very little is 
known ; and, till lately, it does not appear to 
have been noticed by naturalists. Neitlier 
Linnsus, nor BufFon, were at all acquainted 
with it ; but Pennant, who gives two figures 
of this animal, drawn by Colonel Paterson, 
informs us, on the authority of tliat ingenious 
traveller," that it *' inhabits the neighbourhood 
cf the Cape of Good Hope ; and that it is 
called the Elephant Shrew, from it's proboscis- 
like snout." 
One of the figures engraved by Pennant, 
represents the animal with it's snout turned up- 
wards, the other is that ^vhich wc have 
adopted. It is delineated of the natural size. 
If this Shrew has the faculty of dropping as 
well as elevating it's snout, of which we have 
some doubt ; it would, perhaps, have been best 
figured in that a6lion, as most resembling the 
Elepliant's proboscis, from which it is named. 
A.S the whole race of Shrews are remarkable 
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